Wrestling Has a Dark Side. But for Some, It’s a Safe Space.

Willow Nightingale vs. Allie Katch at the Voltage Lounge in Philadelphia, January 2021. Photo: Sofie Vasquez The first indie-wrestling competition 23-year-old photographer Sofie Vasquez ever photographed was at a stadium in the Bronx. She was 19 at the time, a community college student studying documentary photography. As a mainstream-wrestling fan, she was enthusiastic to get into the indie circuit, independently run promotions that are smaller than the major televised matches.

Sofie Vasquez Wolfman’s Wrestling School, three hours from Pittsburgh, April 2021. Photo: Sofie Vasquez When Sofie was 15, she was introduced to mainstream wrestling through her grandfather, who regularly watched WWE. One day, she decided to sit down and join him. The experience was transformative. Vasquez was an “emo teenage girl” looking for self-expression, and up until then, she’d only found it in indiecore and pop-punk music — the “Tumblr 2014 era.

Shot in analog and resplendent color, in candids and tender, quieter portraits, “Almost Famous: An Indie Wrestling Diary” is a capsule of the year Vasquez spent traveling and photographing. While archiving the work, Vasquez — a fan of Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous — noticed that many of the wrestlers she’d captured had since signed on for big promotions, and that she’d captured them on the precipice of making it.

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