The Deepening

A 12- or 24-week conceptual photography mentorship

With Catherine Just
Create a body of work that’s authentic, evocative, and profoundly meaningful.

Spots are filling up before registration opens to the general public!!
ONLY 5 SPOTS LEFT in the 12-WEEK TRACK
ONLY 2 SPOTS LEFT in the 24-WEEK TRACK

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 course for people who want to create emotionally resonant, conceptually powerful, gallery-worthy fine art photographs — and finish a cohesive body of art they’re proud to share with the world.

✨ How It Works

This is not a technical class.
This is a deepening experience through your lens.

Each week, you’ll receive a thoughtfully crafted lesson focused on both the conceptual and emotional aspects of photography, along with a personalized prompt designed to inspire and ignite your creativity.

You’ll create unique work based on that prompt, share your creations with the group, and receive constructive feedback from Catherine and your fellow participants.

You’ll learn how to calm your nervous system, build trust in your creative instincts, and feel more confident in your work.

You’ll not only create a meaningful photographic series—you’ll also deepen your connection to who you are as an artist.

Choose Your Path

🌀 Begin Deepening

12 Weeks for 12 Participants :: ***Only 5 Spots Left!

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. Using EFT Tapping, Future Writing, Visualization, Neural Energetic Wiring, and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), 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
  
  Only 12 spots available.
  Only 5 spots available.
  

🌊 Into the Deep

24 Weeks — for 8 Participants :: ***Only 2 Spots Left

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

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

• Development of your artist statement + bio

• Submission strategy and actions regularly for juried online and in person exhibitions.

• Participation in a curated online group exhibition (Nov 2025) see example of this HERE.

Only 8 spots available.
ONLY 2 SPOTS LEFT

🌍 Into the Deep + Paris!

24 Weeks + Paris Retreat

End your journey in the most poetic way possible:
a 1-week slow-travel photography retreat in Paris, May 2026.

Includes everything in Into the Deep, plus:

• A 1-week in-person retreat in Paris (May 2026)

• Morning meetups in my apartment in the 1st arrondissement (2 blocks from the Louvre)

• Photographic wanderings, writing, creative exploration

• A Final celebration of your body of work

• Monthly Zoom sessions leading up to the retreat (Oct 2025–Apr 2026)

• Continued creation, refinement, and preparation in community

🖋️ Accommodations and travel not included. Limited to 6–8 people. Minimum of 6 participants required.

Only 8 spots available. A 6 person Minimum is required to make the trip a “go”.

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.

✨ Enrollment for the General Public Opens Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Class Starts Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

Only 12 spots 5 Spots Left for the 12 week course

Only 8 spots 2 Spots Left for the 24 week course

Only 8 spots available for the 24 week course + Paris retreat!

Join the waitlist now and be the first in line for the general public open!

Frequently Asked Questions:

About Catherine:

Catherine Just is a visual artist whose work explores the space between what we see and what we sense. Working in photography and mixed media, she creates images that give form to what often goes unspoken. Her work traces the emotional landscapes of love and loss, presence and absence — unraveling what remains unexpressed in moments of connection, intimacy, memory, and desire.

Getting sober at 18, Catherine’s work is rooted in transformation and lived truth. She earned a BFA in Conceptual Photography, Film, and Video from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, later apprenticed with Toltec master Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), and holds certifications in subconscious reprogramming. Her practice bridges the artistic and the metaphysical.

Her work has been featured on the cover of National Geographic Magazine, in O Magazine, and in significant international exhibitions including Les Rencontres d'Arles (France), Photos de Femme (Provence), the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Milan Photo Fair, Alta Vista Arts (Paris), and WhiteWalls Projects Gallery (Australia).

Catherine leads online courses and immersive retreats in France, supporting artists in moving through creative blocks and into deeper, more authentic expression.

She is the single mother of Max, her 16-year-old son with Down syndrome. Together, they create art that confronts ableism and reimagines inclusion through love, visibility, and shared creative expression.

 
You can follow her on Instagram at @cjust