Sessa, Aldo

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1939. At the age of ten, he began his artistic career at the De Ridder Workshop. He later specialized in graphic arts, layout, audiovisualism, and photography. In 1958, he started his photographic collaborations in the rotogravure section of the newspaper La Nación. He was the last photographer to document "Ejercicio Plástico: El Mural de Siqueiros" by the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, located at Quinta Los Granados in Don Torcuato, in 1990. A year later, he was named Honorary Member by the Argentine Federation of Photography and a Numerary Academician of the National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1994, he inaugurated the Mega-exhibition "Los Argentinos," featuring 400 portraits of personalities from the country, which was visited by more than 250,000 people at the Palais de Glace, National Palace of the Arts.