Gaucho, arreo en la Pampa Photograph

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1939. His first artistic experience began at age 10, studying drawing and painting at the De Ridder Workshop and exhibiting at the Müller Gallery in 1952. In his youth, he worked in a printing shop and completed his training at the Miluz ink factory, acquiring a deep knowledge of graphic arts. In 1962, he co-founded a photography studio with Eduardo Quirno and began collaborating with La Nación and La Gaceta de Tucumán, where he continues contributing as a freelance photographer. In the 1970s, he trained at Consolidated Film Industries in Hollywood and attended master classes at USC, complementing his work at ALEX Film Laboratories, a company founded by his grandfather. He has published 52 art books, documenting Argentina’s landscapes, people, and cities. His collaborations include writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Silvina Ocampo, and Silvina Bullrich. Among these, The Ghosts of Forever (1980), created with Ray Bradbury and published by Rizzoli International, was presented at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles alongside an exhibition of his original illustrations and a lecture by Bradbury. With his camera, he documented Argentina extensively—from La Quiaca to Ushuaia—on more than three occasions for his books (41 dedicated to the country). He also photographed in Turkey, Israel, India, Thailand, Morocco, France, the UK, Russia, and the U.S., producing an immense archive from which several international editions have been published. In 1989, The Art of Photography at the National Museum of Fine Arts was visited by over 120,000 people. In 1990, the National Academy of Fine Arts awarded him a chair in photography, making him its first full member in this field. He also restored the Francisco Ayerza Archive and promoted the annual Francisco Ayerza Photography Prize for young Argentine photographers. In 1994, Los Argentinos, a mega-exhibition with 400 portraits, attracted 250,000 visitors at the Palais de Glace. In 2003, Las Manos Creadoras was made for HERMES Paris and shown in Buenos Aires. In 2012, he presented Buenos Aires en 50 años at the Fortabat Collection. In 2017, his large-format photographs of gauchos were exhibited at the CCK, and in 2018, the Museo de Arte Moderno inaugurated Archivo Aldo Sessa 1958–2018, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, featuring 700 photographs.