Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman (born 1975) is an American fine art photographer based in Brooklyn. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA, studied at the Bard College MFA program, and began a practice-based fine arts PhD at Central Saint Martins in London. Sussman is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and spoke about her work at the TED Global conference in 2010. Sussman's interdisciplinary project "The Oldest Living Things in the World," has been featured in the media all over the world, including the Wall Street Journal,[1] CNN,[2] The Guardian,[3] NPR's Picture Show,[4] New Scientist,[5] as well as publications in China, Brazil, New Zealand, and throughout Europe.

In 2008 critic Jerry Saltz cited her work as the "best photography that slipped under the radar" in New York Magazine,[6] having stated in the exhibition review: “These stately pictures quiet the soul: You enter a reverie wondering how these organisms managed to live so long and if there’s anything in them that might help us stave off the inevitable…Sussman brings you to the place where science, beauty, and eternity meet” [7]

Oldest Living Things in the World

Since 2004, Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older.[8] Sussman says "The project is part art and part science. There's an environmental component. And I'm also trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time and to start to consider a deeper timescale. I selected 2,000 years as my minimum age because I wanted to start at what we consider to be year zero and work back from there."[9]

Her book of the same title was published April 2014, containing essays from Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer.

Awards and nominations

Exhibitions

Speaking Engagements and Appearances

References

  1. ↑ Julie Steinerg Earth's Real Senior Citizens NY CULTURE section June 15, 2010 Wall Street Journal
  2. ↑ CNN World Report
  3. ↑ The oldest living organisms: ancient survivors with a fragile future
  4. ↑ Priscilla Villarreal Hunting For The Oldest Living Things In The World The Picture Show March 25, 2010 NPR
  5. ↑ 13 April 2010 New Scientist
  6. ↑ Best Photography Shows That Slipped Under the Radar: Rachel Sussman The Culture Awards, OLTW: CRITICS PICK & REVIEW BY JERRY SALTZ, MAY, 2008 BEST OF 2008 IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE
  7. ↑ New York Magazine, May 2008
  8. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/may/02/rachel-sussman-oldest-plants
  9. ↑ TED interactive transcript

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