Ever wonder what organisms more than 2,000 years old look like, or where you can even find them in the first place? Photographer Rachel Sussman decided to find out by starting a “The Oldest Living Things in the World” project:
The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way.
The project has since been expanded into a photo book, which features essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer. Get it over on Amazon.