KATYA KNYAZEVA
Journalist, photographer, writer and illustration artist
Journalist, photographer, writer and illustration artist
Katya Knyazeva is a journalist and photographer from Siberia. She has been living in Shanghai since 2006 where she worked variously as an illustration artist, writer, photojournalist and historian. She has published articles on Chinese cuisine, arts and theater, urban form and Shanghai history.
Katya guides Shanghai Flaneur’s guests through the secret lanes of the Old City and the leafy avenues of the former French Concession. She has been a speaker at Explore Shanghai Heritage, the Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai Expat Association and World Art Deco Congress. She is the author of “Shanghai Old Town: Topography of a Phantom City” (2015), a photographic atlas, a street guide and an oral history of the oldest and most obscure quarter in Shanghai. Katya has been walking with SHANGHAI FLANEUR since March 2011.