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.

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 *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.

✨ 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.

Catherine's insights and practical tools will assist you in overcoming any blocks and negative beliefs that may arise, employing techniques specifically aimed at calming your nervous system and fostering greater confidence in your artistic abilities.

As the class progresses, you’ll develop a complete photographic series and a much stronger connection to your identity as an artist.

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

🌀 Begin Deepening :: 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. 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

🌊 Into the Deep :: 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.

• An NMFW Devotional Kit, mailed to your doorstep.
  
  
  
  

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 37 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