Rachel Sussman: The World’s Oldest Living Organisms

November 17, 2010

The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars were started in 2003 to build a body of ideas about long-term thinking; to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. This November’s seminar features Rachel Sussman, a professional photographer. While humans might aspire to live a century, Rachel Sussman documents creatures who might live for millennium or two. Her photography includes 4,500 year old bristlecone pines, 12,000 year old yucca, 400,000 year old Siberian bacteria, and many other very old organisms, all with lives longer than all of recorded human history.