The Deepening

A 12- or 24-week conceptual fine art photography mentorship program
Create a body of work that’s authentic, evocative, and profoundly meaningful.

What if your camera became a portal?

To your inner world.
To your truth.
To the work you were always meant to make.

You’re not here to just take pretty pictures.
You’re here to tell the story beneath the surface.
To photograph what can’t be said.
To make the invisible, visible.

The Deepening

A mentorship program for *photographers who want to create emotionally resonant, conceptually powerful, gallery-worthy work
and finish a cohesive body of art they’re proud to share with the world.

Guidance, vision, and momentum for the art only you can make

✨ How It Works

This is not a technical class. It is a deepening — a way of seeing and creating through your lens that draws you closer to your own truth.

This group mentorship is designed to move you out of stagnation and into an inspired, confident forward motion. Here, you’ll create work that is unmistakably yours — work that rises directly from what matters most to you. The camera becomes more than a tool for making beautiful images; it becomes a way of translating meaning.

Perhaps you already love photographing landscapes or sunsets. Here, those same images take on layered symbolic and metaphorical depth. They become vessels for your own inner terrain — a visual language as much about what’s felt as what’s seen. The result is a kind of visual poetry that anchors you more fully in who you are, and in turn, draws in those who recognize themselves in the medicine only your photographs can hold.

We begin each session with grounding breathwork, followed by future writing and a weekly action — a tangible step toward the creative life you envision. From there, we take the pulse of what’s present. As an intuitive seer of the unsaid, I guide the conversation toward unspoken truths, bringing to the surface what’s ready to be released so you can deepen your connection to your own creative power. Our time together unfolds in real time, alive and responsive, meeting what is most needed in the moment.

As the weeks progress, you’ll develop not only a complete photographic series, but a stronger, more embodied sense of yourself as an artist.

In 12 weeks, you’ll leave with a solid body of work and a renewed creative momentum. In 24 weeks, you’ll expand that work into a larger, more fully realized series, write your artist’s statement and bio, re-enter the world of juried online exhibitions, and refine your edits into a cohesive collection — culminating in a curated online group exhibition on my website.

Choose Your Path :: 12-Weeks // 24-Weeks

🌀 12-Weeks

Create a body of 12 conceptual images with structure, support, and weekly group critique.

Includes:

• 2-hour live zoom calls with Catherine every Wednesday 10:30am pst (recorded if you can’t make it live)

• New Content on Conceptual Photography with Catherine’s Philosophy and Practices

• Group mentoring. Each student shares up to 3 images a week for mentoring on our Zoom Sessions.

• Weekly Mindset and Energetic Alignment - breaking free from limiting beliefs that keep you stuck in the same patterns. Future Writing, Visualization, we’ll rewrite the subconscious beliefs standing in the way of your success - so you can finally take bold action as the artist you’re here to be. No more self-sabotage. No more second-guessing.

• Support on editing, refining, and sequencing your work

• Final review + feedback on your series

• Community connection + accountability

🌊 24-Weeks

For those ready to take the work even further
expanding your series, refining your voice, and preparing to share your work with the world.

Includes everything in Begin Deepening, plus:

• Expansion to 24 final images with double the feedback and support to get you there.

• Monthly 1:1 mentoring sessions with Catherine during the added 3 months of class.

• Development of your Artist statement + Bio

• Submission strategy and roadmap for juried exhibitions

• Participation in a curated online group exhibition see example of this HERE.

The next Cohort begins Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

This work isn’t about looking impressive.

It’s about being honest.
It’s about creating something alive.
A portal through the image - into the self.

Frequently Asked Questions:

About Catherine:

Catherine Just is a visual artist and photographer whose work explores what we see—and what we sense. Through photography and mixed media, she gives form to what’s often unspoken: the emotional landscapes of love, loss, connection, and desire.

Sober since the age of 18, Catherine now celebrates 38 years of continuous sobriety. Her creative practice is rooted in transformation and lived truth. She holds a BFA in Conceptual Photography, apprenticed with Miguel Ruiz, Toltec Master and author of The Four Agreements. She weaves all of this into everything she does. She’s also certified in “the Trauma of Money” process and in Subconscious Reprogramming Techniques that help support people in releasing old beliefs and disrupting patterns while creating new more abundant lives.

Her work has been featured on the cover of National Geographic Magazine, in O Magazine, and exhibited internationally including galleries in Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, The South of France.

Catherine leads online courses, offers photography sessions internationally and holds retreats in France that help women become more embodied, confident and fully self-expressed. She’s part of the teaching faculty at the Los Angeles Center of Photography and at the Trauma of Money Certification program.

She’s the single (co-parenting) mother of Max, her 16-year-old son with Down syndrome, and together they make work that re-imagines inclusion through love, art, and visibility.

You can follow her on Instagram at @cjust