Catherine Just

https://www.catherinejust.com/ / @cjust

Catherine Just is a Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist working with large-format film, Polaroid, and alternative photographic processes. Her work explores intimacy, longing, and belonging, tracing emotional and spiritual landscapes that exist beyond language. Influenced by a personal apprenticeship with Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, and nearly four decades of sobriety from a meth addiction, her practice approaches image-making as an act of listening, devotion, and repair.

Her work has been published on the cover of National Geographic and in O Magazine, and has been exhibited internationally in Paris, London, Milan, New South Wales, Australia, and across the United States.

Catherine is the single mother of her son Max, who has Down syndrome. In select projects, their collaborative work engages questions of visibility, ableism, and inclusion, extending her broader inquiry into belonging, care, and what it means to be seen.

Artist's Statement:

Chasing Fog: Learning How to Breathe is a study of the unseen and unsaid within love, loss, and what lives between them. Both personal and universal, the work uses a vintage Polaroid SX-70 to give dreamlike form to what exists just beneath the surface.

Self-portraiture is the primary language of the series—an act of listening with the entire body. Some images remain out of focus, like memories that fade; others are hand-stitched, marking a passage from fracture to repair or an eruption of emotion.