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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chante LaGon and David Lee Simmons talking about artist Sheila Pree Bright’s High Museum solo debut, Young Americans. (Showing through Aug. 10.)
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.
Sheila Pree Bright tends to her own secrets while her images expose the inner lives of her subjects. She’s one reason this month that Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
Felicia Feaster Speaks with Sheila Pree Bright – Download.
Even as a 5-year-old living with her family in Heilbronn, Germany, the more introverted Sheila Pree Bright was, the stronger the reaction she’d receive from others.
One day, Denise, her energetic older sister, grew tired of Sheila burying her nose in the books their Army father had provided her. She wanted Sheila to come out to play.
So Denise heated a knitting needle over the stove and, in a childish fit, poked her with it.
“She doesn’t like a lot of attention,” Kisha, their younger sister, says of Sheila, “but she’s always gotten it.”
Years later, as a 40-year-old photographer whose growing talent has increased her public exposure, Bright is still very, very private. “‘Oh, you’re just so pretty, you’re this, you’re that.’” It’s a refrain she says she heard often in childhood. Irritation creeps into her voice. “And I always felt uncomfortable with that.”
For an audio slide-show, click here
