MoPho (yes we call it that for short) isn’t an old replay content library. It’s a unique live method with focused, high-touch, accountability-based work each season to systematically refine your creative process, business structure, and self-leadership.
school’s in session
evolve or die
Guiding you
to save yourself
Welcome to an education unlike any other in the industry.Why an open mouth? Because closed mouths don’t get fed and we eat well here.
MoPho (yes we call it that around here) is a four-season school for established wedding and portrait photographers who are done blaming the industry, the algorithm, or burnout and ready to take control of their business, art, and leadership by doing the hard work
I’m Laurken
(Lar-Kin)
As your guide for this ride, I believe:
- You’re an adult and you can handle hard truths.
- The result you're wanting is in all the work you've been avoiding (and I'll help you stop that)
- You are way more capable than you give yourself credit for.
- You need inner work combined with external action to get to the next level.
- You have to learn to be a solid self-leader with strong boundaries to have confidence.
- All significant evolution starts with making yourself helpable and that means admitting your current way of doing things isn’t working for you anymore
You’ve done the work but everything still feels off. You’re disconnected and stuck.
Hustling harder isn't going to bring you happiness. You don’t need another strategy, you need a rhythm.
Together, we’ll build structure that supports your seasons. We’ll find your rhythm, reclaim your vision, and rebuild from truth—not tactics
How do I know?
that was me
WELCOME TO MOTHERPHOTOGRAPHER SCHOOL
I’m Laurken (Lar-kin). I’ve guided hundreds of photographers through their darkest winters and wildest rebirths. This school exists because I needed it too—a place to call you on your shit (lovingly),help you make the kind of art where people dont need to look at thehandle to know who posted it, and build a business that doesn’t nourishes, protects and builds confidence.
No more feast or famine. No more burnout cycles.
THe success you’ve been seeking is in the work you’ve been avoiding. I’ll help you stare it down.
I’ll be with you every
step of the way
Let me prescribe your medicine
SIGN UP FOR SCHOOL. Say YES to doing the work to hit the next level
Get your keys to evolution via email
join the active seasonal course
THE SEASONAL CYCLE
① Seasonal Course Syllabus
Each season tackles one core layer of your business and self-leadership, moving from inner foundation to creative resurrection to structure and sustainability.
WINTER: THE SHIFT
(Mindset. Discipline. Evolution.)
SPRING: PRISM
(Creativity. Exploration. Expression.)
SUMMER: SUMMERSKEWL
(Identity. Rhythm. Voice.)
FALL: THE AUTOPSY
(Clarify. Rebuild. Resurrect.)
The School Experience
② The School Experience
Seasonal Rotation
1 Unique 4–6 week Live Course Each Quarter
Full digestive system
Each course builds to create a 12 month school experience
The Quarters each have 3 Phases:
Active: The Seasonal Course (live classes, weekly checked work)
Passive: Post-Seasonal Systems (support and implementation via pre-recorded offerings that give you new tools or systems to help you implement what you learned)
Neutral: The Integration Period (where you apply change but with the support of 1x weekly morning group meeting to help keep you accountable)
The objective in each course is to get you from the point of KNOWING to the point of UNDERSTANDING as we go through a structure that supports IMPLEMENTATION> INTEGRATION
Winter
③ WINTER — Active Course: The Shift
(Mindset. Discipline. Evolution.)
The Cost of the New Self is the Old Self. This is your total overhaul.
During this *student favorite* 40- DAY journey, we burn up what’s not working in our life and business and rebuild from the inside out. This process is about changing the way you move, think, spend, show up, and lead yourself.
We dig into your money, your values, your patterns, your negative cycles so you can discover for yourself that the success you’ve been looking for is in what you’ve been avoiding.
Over these 40 days, you’ll:
- Rewire your mindset and discipline (no more start/stop cycles) for greater confidence and courage
- Audit your values, habits, and beliefs about money
- Set grounded goals for the year ahead that actually make sense
- Create a daily rhythm that supports focus and accountability
- Clean house-mentally, emotionally, and strategically
- Match your internal evolution with external structure
- Leave with a clear, tangible plan for the year
This is the one everyone comes back for even after they graduate because once you do The Shift, you don’t just run your business differently, you run yourself differently.
Spring
④ SPRING-Active course: PRISM
(Creativity. Exploration. Expression.)
This is where your spark comes back online.
For 4 weeks, we dig up what’s made your work feel stale or disconnected and set it on fire (in the sexiest way). PRISM is for remembering why you ever picked up a camera (or made anything) in the first place. It’s a creative revival where you’ll strip the pressure you’ve built around making art, ditch the performative bs, and start creating like you again.
Here’s what we do in PRISM:
- Rebuild a relationship with your art that actually feels good
- Study under a chosen photography Master, experiment with new techniques and rediscover what gets you creatively off
- Get out of your head and back into your instincts
- Learn how to stop creating for the love of others and start creating what you love
- Build habits that keep the creativity alive long after the journey ends
PRISM is for when you’re ready to feel alive and find yourself in your work again. You come out of it creatively aroused, and ready to start making from individuality instead of external pressure.
Summer
⑤ SUMMER-Active course- SUMMERSKEWL
(Identity. Rhythm. Voice.)
This is where you and your business get back in sync.
For 8 weeks, we focus on redefining your personal sacred rhythm (the one that actually fits who you are now) at the intersection of your life and business, in keeping with your individuality. SUMMERSKEWL is your mid-year recalibration. Find a new flow, re-establish structure that supports your life and your creativity, and get your business to move with you instead of against you.
Here’s what we do in SUMMERSKEWL:
- Reconnect to your business cycle identity and get clear on what phase you’re in now
- Rebuild your routines, rituals, and systems so they actually match your particular energy
- Learn how to lead yourself as the Archetypes of Founder, CEO, and Manager to prevent burn out
- Find your sacred rhythm between creating, marketing, and living
- Clean out the busywork that’s been killing your momentum
- Redefine midyear goals and build habits that support them
SUMMERSKEWL is the mid-year realignment. Its half therapy, half strategy session but gentle enough to compliment your summer plans.
Fall
⑥ FALL- Active course: THE AUTOPSY
(Clarify. Rebuild. Resurrect.)
Five weeks to reconstruction.
We cut straight into the guts of your business and get real about what’s dying, what’s dead, and what’s worth saving. Every pattern, every weak spot, every outdated system gets dragged into the light. The Autopsy isn’t theory—it’s work. The uncomfortable, necessary kind that brings your business back from the brink and gets it running clean again.
You’ll:
- Cut into every major organ of your business and identify whats alive, whats dead and whats dying
- Rebuild your offers, systems, and client experience with intention
- Build a backbone to your business that reinforces confidence and boundaries
- Reconnect self-leadership and authority with your actual results
- Clarify what the next version of your business looks like for the next turn of the wheel
The Autopsy is a full business resurrection. It’s graduate level work- hard, precise, and meant for people who are done hemorrhaging the minutes of their life to broken systems in their business.
The Passive Work
⑦ The Passive Work
Integration. Accountability. Application.
Every quarter, after the live course ends, we move into a slower rhythm. The Passive Season is where you take what we just burned down, renewed, rebuilt, or resurrected and start getting your reps in.
This is the part most people skip: the implementation, the small daily choices that turn a class you take into a tool for lasting change.
During the Passive Season, you’ll join SMAC (Small, Methodical, and Consistent) weekly group goal-setting and accountability calls designed to helo you over . You’ll also get access to a rotating passive class, a focused tool or system that deepens the work from the active season and keeps you evolving at a sustainable pace.
It’s quieter but where the actual change occurs.
Become
a student
Are you finally sick of the start/stop cycles?
Get in, we're doing it scared.
school tuition
$97 /per month
$247 /per quarter
$797/ per YEAR
- Four, unique seasonal live intensives built for actual integration
- High-touch teaching with direct feedback and guided application
- Weekly goal-setting and accountability to keep momentum real
- Digestive system with homework and monthly photo projects to hone creativity
- Real-world tools and systems designed to support follow-through, not productivity
- A small, serious community of experienced photographers who show up to do the work
CUrrently:
THE SHIFT
Winter '26 Process
The Shift is a 40-day kick in the ass for burned-out photographers who are done avoiding their lives and ready to take control again. Through one daily practice and weekly checkpoints, it rebuilds self-trust, discipline, and clarity in your business so you stop outsourcing your power to feelings, algorithms, or excuses and start leading your business on purpose.
- 40 days of structured self-leadership focused on mind, money, and decision-making
- Practical business planning that turns ideas into executable priorities
- Habit systems grounded in behavioral science so change doesn’t fall apart afterward
This school IS for those photographers who:
- - Are ready to cut their own unhelpful bullshit and do the work they've been avoiding
- - Are sick of feel stuck in a loop of start/stop cycles
- - Are jaded in their established photography business
- - Are ready to do The Work from the inside, out and rebuild both self and system
- - Are hungry for clarity, ritual and creative evolution in their business
- - Are brave enough to face their own destructive patterns and go to war with them
- - Are ready to UNDERSTAND that mastery doesn’t come from tips or trends but from clarity and consistency
This school is NOT for those photographers who:
- - Want fluffy advice or endless guest experts
- - Want fluffy advice or endless guest experts
- - Want someone else to do the work for them
- - Want someone else to do the work for them
- - Are wanting to be casual learners
- - Are seeking community first. Yes you’ll likely make friends but you are here to evolve to the next level as a primary objective
- - Are close minded to various practices that evolve and expand the inner world
- - Are brand new to business
- - Are to learn editing, blogging, or any basic day to day operation
The Receipts
Questions
and ANSWERS!
Am I okay to enroll just for one quarter?
Am I okay to enroll just for one quarter?
You can but know that this journey has been carefully designed as a year long program with each season building on the previous.
Every live turn of the seasonal wheel touches deeply on a different aspect of self, creative expression, confidence, boundaries and the running of a photography business.
Ideally, you would stay one year and graduate in 12 months from this journey having gone through all 4 rounds.
Can I cancel anytime?
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes you can cancel anytime but there are no refunds purchases. I’m giving you all the information you need to know here. You’re committing to me and I’m committing to you.
How is this different from any other photography membership?
How is this different from any other photography membership?
In every way. There is no other school like this one.
This school is not a passive membership model where I upload random classes and your met with the cold chill of an overwhelming video library full of shit that’s 2 years old.
You will not find industry experts, editing advice or superficial trends. I ran that model (I started that model 4 years ago actually) and have found it incredibly ineffective. This school has evolved into something you can’t find anywhere else in the industry.
Every season has been mapped out using the Enneagram (not the personality test- the creation tool) meaning that everything has been thoroughly thought through and created with intention, ensuring you have the proper tools to work within your limitations so you take the right step at the right time.
I’m a new photographer, is this for me?
I’m a new photographer, is this for me?
Not for you yet- this school is advanced work for photographers who have established businesses
Are the live classes recorded in case I can’t make it?
Not for you yet- this school is advanced work for photographers who have established businesses
Yes- all live classes are recorded for you to watch back. The Active course classroom will remain open until the end of the quarter. Homework checks will continue until the season closes.
What can i expect for time commitment?
What can i expect for time commitment?
Totally depends on the season but expect 1-2 hours of work a week while the Active class
I’m worried I will fall behind.
I’m worried I will fall behind.
There is no “behind” or “late” here. Yes, I will be lovingly on your ass to get you through the work but life happens. I walk with you where you’re at but remember, you will only get out what you put in and I know this from the 500 students that have gone through this school. Stay with it and make the goal of getting through the course by the end of the quarter. I’ll be there to help you.
What kind of guide are you?
What kind of guide are you?
I’m a loving, no bullshit teacher. I believe that you are a big person who doesn’t need to be coddled, can hear hard truths and that you are ready to create actual change in your life and business (or you wouldn’t come to me)
I created this school with the intention for all of us to be our unfiltered and uncensored selves in every way.
I believe that the success you’re looking for is in the work you’ve been avoiding. My goal is to put you in a position for self-confrontation.
What happens after the live course ends?
What happens after the live course ends?
Each quarter has an Active and Passive period. The Active period (your information and implementation part)is the live course, the Passive period (your integration part) is what follows.
During the passive period, which is critical to any change, I do a weekly morning meeting for accountability with a little something for you to mentally chew on.
I also always offer a passive pre-recorded class giving you a related tool or system that you can watch in the time period between seasonal Active journeys.
I’m enrolled, now what
I’m enrolled, now what
You’ll receive an email with all the information that will walk you through the initiation process.
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