The Joy Project

Having posed the question “what brings you the most joy?” to family, friends, colleagues etc., we found a common theme of comforting domesticity across many of the answers. From cups of tea, warm showers, and cuddling pets to being in bed under clean sheets, watching a favourite film for the hundredth time, and listening to music alone, it seemed as though the simple pleasures of everyday life brought people the most joy. We loved reading all the answers and added a few of our own, such as cooking for loved ones, seeing fresh snow, making someone laugh, watching the sunset, flicking through old photos and hearing great lyrics.

And so, The Joy Project was born – a continuous and ongoing creative collaboration between photographer, Fran Cattaneo, and collage artist and writer, Charlotte Paradise, which hopes to reflect how space and the subject inhabiting it compliment one another and how interrogating the personal can cause the ordinary to become extraordinary. The three series we have attached and listed below are the preliminary few, but we see The Joy Project as a continuous one and are looking forward to adding to our existing work.