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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. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman's relentless curiosity. She begins at "year zero," and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present.
About the Author
Rachel A. Sussman, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, writer, and lecturer based in New York City. As the founder of Sussman Counseling, a psychotherapy practice devoted to treating couples and individuals with relationship dilemmas, Sussman has counseled patients in all phases of dating, marriage, and breakups for over a decade. Ms. Sussman recently published "The Breakup Bible - The Smart Woman's Guide to Healing from a Breakup or Divorce", which is not only a book for women who have had a traumatic breakup or divorce, but is for any woman wanting to understand their behavior in personal relationships. Ms. Sussman lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Visit her author site at http://www.rachelasussman.com.
