Photographer Sheila Pree Bright Shows Sorrow, Heart Of Protests
#1960 is ongoing, and some of those images appear in the High Museum of Arts’ current exhibit of Civil Rights photography called “A Fire That No Water Could Put Out.”
Sheila Pree Bright / Courtesy of the High Museum of Art
Atlanta-based artist Sheila Pree Bright has attended protests around the country since Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012. Those images have contributed to her series #1960Now, the title evoking that the fight for civil rights is the same now as it was then.
But, Bright does not consider herself a photojournalist and hopes to create a different kind of narrative with her images.
“I felt that what I saw in the media is always showing the angry black male, and I wanted to show the love, the passion, the hurt,” she said in a conversation with “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes. “Even though they are protest images, I consider them portraits of a community and love.”
#1960 is ongoing, and some of those images appear in the High Museum of Arts’ current exhibit of Civil Rights photography called “A Fire That No Water Could Put Out.” As part of that exhibition, Bright will have a public discussion with photographer Doris Derby, who was photographing protests in the 1960s. That will be held on Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hill Auditorium at the High.
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