Sara Facio is a photographer, curator, journalist and editor, noted for her portraits of figures from Latin American culture and for her community work promoting photography. She graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1953, in 1955 she received a scholarship from the French Government and resided in Paris for a year, studying visual arts and later, photography. Between 1960 and 1985 she was a partner of Alicia D’Amico and worked in advertising, graphic reports and writing for most of the newspapers and magazines in Buenos Aires, Europe and the US. She created photography sections in the newspapers Clarín, La Nación, and in the most important specialized magazines. In 1973 she founded, together with Cristina Orive, La Azotea Editorial Fotofotografia, the only one in her time in Latin America, dedicated exclusively to the specialty. Between 1985 and 1998 she created and directed the Photo Gallery of the San Martín Theater in Buenos Aires, where she presented 160 exhibitions of world masters and beginners who are references today, with their corresponding catalogues. She culminated in the creation of the Photographic Collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, National Heritage, which she directed and curated exhibitions between 1995 and 2010. She exhibited individually in museums and galleries throughout America, Europe and Asia.
Since 1968 she has published more than twenty personal books of hers; texts and anthological publications in 2012 and 2016. She has received awards and distinctions as a photographer and as an editor in Argentina and abroad. Among others, National Fund for the Arts, Konex Platinum Award, from the National University of Lanús, National University of Rosario, from Ñ Magazine; Book publishing awards in Argentina, France, Austria and Mexico. In 2011 she was named Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires. In 2014 and 2015 she exhibited Sara Facio Donation at the National Museum of Fine Arts, 200 works by Latin American photographers that she donated to that Argentine institution.
Her photographs appear in the permanent collections of, among others, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and in prestigious private collections.