Media 175Principles of Digital

Photography

Photographer: Rachel Sussman

Presented by Lee Schleckser

Rachel Sussman1975-Current

“There is something especially thrilling about meeting researchers who not only study these ancient organisms, but who are also the first to discover and identify them” ~Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman photographs some of the oldest living organisms on Earth.

Rachel Sussman

Photo by Rachel Sussman

"It's hard not to be humbled by giant 2,000-year-old sequoias, but you'd barely notice the 3,000-year-old lichens in Greenland that grow one centimeter every hundred years. I'm hoping these portraits will give people a feeling of awe they

weren't expecting.“ ~Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman

• http://www.oprah.com/money/Rachel-Sussmans-Photos-of-the-Longest-Living-Things-on-Earth

• http://rachelsussman.com/portfolios/OLTW/welwitchia_2.html

• http://blog.longnow.org/02012/05/15/rachel-sussman-searches-for-ernest-shackleton-antarctic-wonder/

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