One of the greatest photographers of all time Yousuf Karsh arrived in Canada as an Armenian refugee from the Turkish Ottoman Empire which perpetrated the Armenian genocide. In 1928 Karsh apprenticed with photographer John Garo in Boston then returned to Canada where Prime Minister Mackenzie King helped him photograph the visiting diplomats. In ...
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Fact
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He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on December 22, 1967 and the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on April 20, 1990 for his services to photography.
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His photographs are included in permanent collections ranging from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the National Portrait Gallery in London. He was catapulted to international fame with his 1941 portrait of Winston Churchill, taken as Great Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany.
He was a famous Ottawa-based portrait photographer perhaps best-known for his photo of a glowering Winston Churchill, which was created by snatching Sir Winston's cigar away suddenly without warning.
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Race for the White House
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary archival photography - 3 episodes