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Rachel Sussman is an American photographer whose work includes images of the earth's "oldest living things".

In 2008 New York Magazine cited her work as the "best photography that slipped under the radar." Her "giant photos" of "gnarly trees and scorched weeds and such earthly matter" in a 2008 exhibit were described as looking like "location shots for nightmarish Seussian horror movies. Here, it looks like the Once-ler threw a tantrum on his way from chopping Truffula trees, a scenario inspiring a spot of Schadenfreude in the misanthropic Lorax."

Oldest Living Things
A photo she took of a Quaking Aspen colony was featured in a Wired magazine story. NPR also featured her work in a story. A picture she took of a 600,000 year old Siberian bacteria was part of a New Scientist article on her work.