WWE goes Alpha: Sony is the camera of choice for WrestleMania's photo team

Black and white photograph of Billy Moshpit dropping a leg lariat across a kneeling luchador, draped across the middle rope, at a UWI professional wrestling event
(Image credit: James Artaius)

WWE, the globetrotting professional wrestling company that's home to household names like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, has a stable of on-screen grapplers called Alpha Academy. But there is another faction of Alphas behind the scenes: the photography division that primarily uses Sony cameras

"We have three staff photographers and most of them use Sony, and we have about fifteen freelancers," says WWE's VP of photography, former New York Times photo editor Brad Smith, who recently appeared on the B&H Explora Podcast

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James Artaius
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James has 22 years experience as a journalist, serving as editor of Digital Camera World for 6 of them. He started working in the photography industry in 2014, product testing and shooting ad campaigns for Olympus, as well as clients like Aston Martin Racing, Elinchrom and L'Oréal. An Olympus / OM System, Canon and Hasselblad shooter, he has a wealth of knowledge on cameras of all makes – and he loves instant cameras, too.