Yusuf Karsh was a renowned portrait photographer.

Yusuf Karsh was born in 1908 in the city of Mardin, which is located in Western Armenia. Yusuf survived the genocide committed against Armenians. ‘I saw my relatives being killed; His family sent him to Canada to live with his uncle. Karsh spent the rest of his life in Ottawa.  His uncle gave Yusuf his first camera and sent him off to study Armenian photographer John H. Caro, where he perfected the art of photography and then began working independently.

Yusuf Karsh’s works include portraits of Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Mother Teresa, Walt Disney, Audrey Hepburn, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro and Dwight Eisenhower.