A few questions with Tierney Gearon

Tierney Gearon mostly takes photos of her family. The former Atlantan had a career as a model, followed by a career as a fashion photographer, but she settled down, had kids, and got "thoroughly bored with the whole fashion industry." She did what a lot of mothers do - started taking photos of her children and relatives. Unlike most mothers, though, she had the experience of creating commercial work for Times Square billboards and the pages of French Vogue. Her first solo show in 2001, i am a camera, drew quite a controversy surrounding pictures of her children. The Mother Project followed by documenting the intense relationship between Gearon and her mother. Her new work photographs family vacations and domestic life through double exposures. Gearon's photographs exude a surreal quality that autobiographical work can rarely maintain.

Her latest show, Explosure, runs at Jackson Fine Art until Jan. 16, 2010.

Her answers and a few images from the show after the jump