Kevin Gudino found peace in photography to balance the chaos of the boxing ring.
Gudino knocked out Marcus Decamp in the first round of a bantamweight bout scheduled for four rounds at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California last month.
Southpaw Gudino, now 4-0 (4 KOs), finds it beneficial to focus on looking for angles behind a DSLR camera as much as angles in a boxing ring and he strives to get the perfect shot framed up in his camera and then reflects on how that has taught him new lessons for when he steps in the ring.
“There are a lot of different angles you can get,” Gudino told BoxingScene. “Putting that into a boxing perspective, it taught me that there are always opportunities. You just have to go for it.”
Gudino, a 20-year-old from La Puente, California, now finds his time outside of the boxing gym for exploring and taking photos in his community. In particular, he likes taking photos of streets and his passion for the art form comes from those closest to him.
“My older brother is 30, and he works in the field of photography,” Gudino added. “My girlfriend is into photography as well.”
Gudino is in the development phase of his career and has to stay ready for whatever opportunities might be presented to him.
“I was going to fight a month ago, but it didn’t go through,” Gudino said. “I kept training. I stayed true to the work.”
That camp carried over into his win in November, almost a year on from turning over.
While he has ambitions of bright lights and being a main event fighter one day, it is the time he spends taking photos outside of the ring that helps break up the repetition of his training camps.
“It is a little hobby I have,” Gudino said of photography. “I love it.”
