Capturing
Breath
on Film.
Carrie-Anne Moss, Los Angeles
Underneath the surface of your thoughts
is the hum of your existence. Let’s meet there.
Fine art photography sessions
designed to bring you back home to yourself.
Caitlin - Oaxaca - 2017
This is a Reclamation of Yourself
No posing or performance for the camera.
Just what's true.
Not the version of you that learned how to be loved.
Not the version you present to the world.
The one who has been here all along.
And the one you've become through everything you've lived.
Capturing Breath is a space to meet yourself as you are. In this body. In this moment of your life.
To acknowledge what you've lived.
To release what you're no longer willing to carry.
To honor what you're ready to welcome in.
And to create a photograph that becomes a tangible reminder of this moment.
Not a portrait of who you think you should be.
A remembrance of who you are.
“Some of my most transcendent experiences were in front of Catherine’s camera.”
-Danielle LaPorte
“This isn’t just about beautiful photos, though it is: it’s about seeing your own power and being in your body & claiming your space in this world. It’s worth every penny and more.”
-Holly Whitaker
This is devotion to yourself.
Marking a Moment that Matters.
Remembering / Reclaiming / Returning
Some have a specific moment in mind
A Recovery Date
A Chapter Change
A New Beginning
A Career Pivot
Reaching a place in life you never thought you could.
Others want to have this sacred experience
to come back home to themselves.
I work with a 4×5 large-format film camera
It’s a slow meditative process.
Tactile.
It gives you time to sink into yourself.
There’s no screen to check and no image to approve.
This is an adventure in seeing what happens
when the film and your energy meet.
I invite unpredictability.
Bring intentions you’d like to set
at this moment in your life.
Things you’re releasing and calling in
You can write them down and put them inside your pocket - or just focus your attention on what’s true
I take a long exposure of you. 4 seconds, 8 seconds,
It depends on the location and the light.
The film collects what’s unseen and unsaid.
I believe that film carries the intentions you bring,
the energy in the room,
The camera knows things.
What emerges
is something that could only belong to you:
a visual record of
your own rhythm, hum, energy, frequency, song.
About me
I've been fascinated by what lives underneath the surface, and in between the words, since I got sober from a meth addiction at 18.
I picked up a camera and began using it to interpret what I could feel but couldn't always name. I still do.
After 39 years of sobriety, a personal apprenticeship with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, decades of making and exhibiting my photographs internationally, being a single parent to my son Max, who has Down syndrome, and years of somatic practice and meditation, I'm still fascinated by the same thing:
What's underneath all the noise?
Underneath the stories we tell about ourselves.
Underneath who we think we're supposed to be.
Underneath the performance.
Meet me there.
I want to photograph that.
The Origin Story
Capturing Breath on film started in 2016 when my son Max was 7. I intended for this to be a year long offering to celebrate 30 years of sobriety. I’m now in between my 39th and 40th year sober and Capturing Breath on Film has come along with me becoming part of my life’s work.
Pay in Full or
Secure with a deposit.
45 Minute Session · $850
Capturing Breath
2 one-of-a-kind 4×5 photographs
Polaroids included as physical originals, with high-resolution scans.
A lot can happen in 45 minutes!
Once booked you’ll hear from us with a calendar to secure your session day, time and location. We’ll schedule a 1:1 Zoom call to design your session together.
2 HOURS · $2,500
The experience I recommend.
After the Capturing Breath 4×5 session, I bring in Polaroid, medium format + whatever else I’m inspired to use, and we keep creating. We design this session together - you can bring gowns, lingerie, suits - whatever is right for what you’re wanting to create. We work on that together before the session.
4 one-of-a-kind 4×5 photographs
1 framed 11×14 silver gelatin print
All signed + dated
Polaroids + medium-format images included as physical originals, contact sheets and/or high-resolution scans.
Pay in Full or
Secure with a deposit.
Once booked you’ll hear from us with a calendar to secure your session day, time and location.
And We’ll schedule a 1:1 Zoom call to design your session.
TWO DAY
Capturing Breath on Film
Immersion
From $10,000 · By inquiry
If you have a specific date in mind
email studio@catherinejust.com
Cathryn · Mallorca, Spain · 2024
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