Rachel Sussman
The Oldest Living Things in the World
Rachel Sussman discusses her research and travels across the world in efforts to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older.
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Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. She is a Guggenheim, NYFA and MacDowell Colony Fellow and has spoken on the TED main stage and at the Long Now Foundation. She is a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Her book, The Oldest Living Things in the World, a…
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LIFE: A Journey Through Time is a photographic interpretation of life on Earth from the Big Bang to the present by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting.
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Exhibit
Life: A Journey Through Time
LIFE: A Journey Through Time is a photographic interpretation of life on Earth from the Big Bang to the present by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting.
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Photographer
Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn.