Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian-Canadian photographer who lived from 1908 to 2002, known for his portraits of notable individuals and described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the twentieth century. An Armenian genocide survivor, he emigrated to Canada as a refugee and by the 1930s had established himself as a significant photographer in Ottawa, where he lived most of his adult life while traveling extensively for work. His iconic 1941 photograph of Winston Churchill marked a major turning point in his career and brought him international recognition, and more than twenty of his photographs appeared on the cover of Life magazine before his retirement in 1993. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/