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84 || FITNESS MAGAZINE || NOVEMBER 2ND EDITION 2015 MFM: Your father is musician. Do you play any instruments yourself?TG: Actually no, both my wife and two children play instruments and sing, however I do not. I have always been more visually oriented. I want to take what I see and reimagine it, repurpose it, because I am an editor and animator, both by trade and training, so I have a sense of timing and visual rhythm. Yet, having grown up in a musical family has taught my ear to hear good versus bad sounds; but sadly, music is not my art form.MFM: You have always been fascinated with comic books. How do you translate the vision into your images?TG: I think about how I can work with a model of extreme ability, like a Parkour, or CrossFit athlete, and also about how I can create an interesting sense of the character through the environment. Mostly the influence is about moving my camera around and collecting as many angles as possible to tell a dynamic story. MFM: Who is your favorite comic book hero?TG: That is a difficult one to answer. I was always more interested in the stories told and the art of the books. The Batman, Spiderman, and X-Men, were my mainstream favorites. However, I was more into alternative comics: the Sandman (written by Neil Gaiman), the Crow, and a couple of miniseries such as: %u201cThe Master,%u201d that is about a samurai done in an ink wash style and %u201cMeltdown,%u201d a Havoc and Wolverine miniseries which was done in a messy watercolor style. It was like reading and looking at a Cohen brother%u2019s filmMFM Do you have any desire to make more short films, or do you plan to stick to photography?TG: I am too committed to multimedia to give any of it up. With both film and photography, images are images, and stories are told in motion and stillness. I am in the middle of a documentary about boxing: %u201cWhat happened to Tyrell Biggs.%u201d It shows the world of sports%u2014the post champion years%u2014all centered around the 1984 United States Olympic Boxing Team member, Biggs. He is the only super heavyweight gold medalist in the history of boxing, and he is sweeping floors at a community center in Philly. That place has a boxing >>>Kacy Catanzaro