Sheila Pree Bright is an Atlanta-based, award-winning fine art photographer nationally known for her photographic series Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, 1960 Who, and #1960Now. Bright is described as a “social cultural anthropologist” whose works include photographic portrayals and provocative commentary on American beauty standards, urban and suburban themes, citizenship, and social movements.

Suburbia is a nuanced and self-reflective meditation on race and class in the suburbs that focuses exclusively on the homes of African Americans. This body of work disrupts the American media’s projection of the “typical” African American community and depicts a more realistic and common experience of middle-class African American life. Suburbia also examines the variations and similarities within a type of existence that subverts lifestyle and culture norms, particularly as it relates to Americanism. In 2006, Bright won the Santa Fe Prize from the Santa Fe Center for Photography for this extensive series.

Sheila Pree Bright is currently documenting the protests and youth leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the series #1960Now while also incorporating the moving image and archival materials.