Bright earned an MFA. in photography from Georgia State University and received the Center Prize from the Santa Fe Center of Photography for Suburbia. Her work was featured in the documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. Bright has exhibited at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC, the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario, Canada), and the Leica Gallery in New York City. Her work is in many private and public collections, including part of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut), and Sprint PCS Art Collection (Overland, Kansas).