Red Eye is a social diary in pictures, showing an urban community from an insider's perspective. Made with a snapshot camera and taking maximum advantage of the immediacy it offers, the images employ the facade of the medium as a tool to their own advantage, embracing the veneer inherent both in the process and in the act of dressing up and posing. It is an open invitation to look.

“Shelton insists on a premise at the very heart of the medium: people are good to look at. Documentary work should be reminded of the superficial thrill of the now. Here the idea of the celebrity meets the idea of the nobody; rather than make you remember and feel concern, she makes you forget you cared in the first place.” — Giovanni Intra