Sheila Pree Bright

Shelia Pree Bright’s work consistently asks the question, “What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century?”

A self-described photographic anthropologist, Bright began the Young Americans series as a partial answer to that question. With a bold concept, an American Flag and a laptop, Bright set out across America to photograph a diverse group of Generation Y and Millennial citizens and capture their thoughts and feelings about their country, and what it means to be an American.

The sitters expressed their perspectives in a statement and posed in their chosen stance with the American flag.

Pree Bright lives and works in Atlanta, GA and holds an MFA in photography from Georgia State University.

Bright’s 2008 exhibition, Young Americans, debuted at the High Museum of Art.

Her recent project, 1960Now, examines race, gender and generational divides to raise awareness of millennial perspectives on civil and human rights and will be published by Chronicle Books in October 2018.