Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project

Tonight at UCSB I saw Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project, a documentary about Tierney Gearon and her photographs of her mother and children, and heard a Q&A with Gearon afterward. I’d known of her work and was happy to have the chance to see her in person. The thing is, I don’t know what to make of her—not just based on the documentary but based on her Q&A, which was incredibly honest and yet tortuous, much like the film—and that’s affecting my perception of her work in ways I hadn’t anticipated.