Rachel Sussman, a Brooklyn photographer and conceptual artist, has spent a decade finding and documenting the oldest living things in the world.
In last five years, two of the 30 subjects that Sussman documented with her photographs have disappeared, both because of direct human interference. The first was a 13,000-year-old underground baobab forest in Pretoria, South Africa that was bulldozed to make way for a road. A 3,500 year-old Cypress tree in Orlando, Florida nicknamed "The Senator" was burned down by a woman smoking meth in the hollow of the tree.
Sussman shared some photos from the project with the Business Insider. The rest could be checked in her new book The Oldest Living Things In The World, published by the University of Chicago Press.
100,000-year-old sea grass meadow is located in a UNESCO-protected waterway between the islands of Ibiza and Formentera, near Spain.
13,000-year-old underground baobab forest in Pretoria, South Africa
13,000-year-old Eucalyptus tree. Sussman declined to reveal the species name because it might hint too heavily at its location5,500-year-old Moss in Elephant Island, Antarctica
2,000+ year-old llareta in the Atacama Desert, Chile
9,550-year-old Spruce tree is the oldest single tree in the world, located on a mountain in Sweden
