EVERYONE
EVERYONE
EVERYONE
EVERYONE
A collectible art book from EVERYONE, made by the team itself. Real, chosen, named people. A first look, and an open door.
Not everyone. What makes you feel everyone.
TL;DR. A curated collection of images and the words that belong beside them. Not a directory of faces. Each image is chosen because it does one thing: makes you feel, in a single glance, that we are one team. Most of what is sent will not appear, and that is what makes appearing mean something. You keep your work, you are credited, and you share in what the book earns.
This is the team recognizing itself. Not a crowd of strangers. Us, distilled. A face, a moment, a pair of hands that makes the whole suddenly visible. It is less a book you read than a team you recognize, and once seen, it cannot be unseen.
As screens fill with faces made from nothing, a book of real, chosen, named people, each one someone who is truly there, becomes rare, and worth keeping. The point was never the machine. It was always the person on the other side of it.
I still make soup for whoever comes.Maria, 64, Cusco
I keep the porch light on. You never know who is still walking.Ruth, 79, Mississippi
I save the day-old bread for whoever could not come earlier.Aïcha, 71, Fès
Lines held as tone references while the book is shaped.
A film has to be watched. A book sits on a table and keeps making the case to whoever walks past it.
No one could make this book. Only everyone could.
Creative direction holds the whole, deciding what belongs beside what, and what to leave out, so a book made by a great many people still reads as one thing. Most of what is sent will never appear, and the book is made as much of that restraint as of the faces it keeps. Authored by everyone, held to a point of view.
Saying that plainly, before anyone sends anything, is the fairer way round. A collection that promised to include everything would be a phone book, and nobody would keep it.
| What you keep | Your image is yours. Your words are yours. Your name is yours. Taking part does not sign any of that away. |
| What you grant | Permission to include your photo and your words in The Human Team and in the wider EVERYONE work that carries the same team, with credit. |
| What you confirm | That it is yours to send, that you are old enough or have a guardian's consent, and that the choice is freely yours. |
| What comes back | Credit as one of the people who made the book, and a share of the value the work creates, recorded against your own account. |
| How to step back | You can ask to be left out of future volumes, and to have your submission removed, any time before it goes to print. |
The creators' share is currently framed as 20% of profit to everyone who created the book, tracked per person and credited when an image is selected, printed, or used.
The binding agreement has not been papered yet, and it will be, with counsel, before any call for submissions goes out. What is above is the intent and it is published early on purpose, so that it can be argued with before it is signed rather than after.
A photograph of yourself, or a few seconds of video, and a few of your own true words. Not a performance, not your best angle. Just you, as you are, taking part. Words are optional, and a picture can be met with words later. Some pages hold a face and a line, some hold only a face, some hold only a line.
The submission tool is a first look and does not store anything yet. There is a screen in the app where you can see how it will work, and it deliberately does not keep what you put into it, because collecting a rights grant into something that saves nothing would be worse than waiting.
What has to exist first: the release papered with counsel, storage that actually keeps a submission and its consent together, and the contribution record that credits you. That work is specified and is weeks rather than months. Submissions open when those three are real, and nothing will be asked for before then.
Brought together, these become the short films that carry EVERYONE into the world, and those films feed the immersive one. One team, one gathering, many surfaces: a book you can hold, short films you can feel, and an immersive film built out of them, where one face becomes all faces and all faces become one.