Interested in working on a shoot? Great!
Start by reading our proposal guidelines.
Once your proposal is complete and accepted, check out Read me Before you Shoot!
In order for your shoot to become part of the Global Lives Library, we'll need you to carefully follow our post-production guidelines.
For our first set of ten shoots from around the world, we created this participant Selection Diagram to help us ensure that our participants comprised a roughly representative sample of the human population. We urge new teams to look at our completed shoots and propose participants that add as much diversity as possible to our existing collection, in all of the same dimensions considered in the participant selection diagram. It is also a good idea to look at our on-screen participant occupations page to see the occupations of previous subjects and suggestions for future shoots.
Produced during our Brazil shoot by São Paulo's Museum of the Person, How to Videotape Someone for 24 Hours (below) is a video guide that will give you a good sense of what a shoot like this will look and feel like.
If you want to use the Global Lives website to recruit for your shoot, make a post in our forums under new shoots.