What It's Like to Photograph World's Oldest Living Organisms

Spruce Gran Picea #0909-6B37 (9,550 years old; Fulufjället, Sweden)

Rachel Sussman photographs our planet's oldest living organisms. From trees dating back perhaps as far as 7,000 years to Siberian Actinobacteria that could be as much as 600,000 years old, she travels the globe to fine, and photograph, the inconceivable. But how does she find the organisms, and what's it like to be that close to living history? Sussman took some time to answer a few questions we have about her curious and amazing quests.

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