Yusuf karsh biography

Yousuf Karsh was a Canadian-Armenian photographer whose portraits consisted of shadows playing with light.

He had a humanistic vision and the revelation of his subject’s personality using photography was the core of his work.

Karsh’s Early Life

Yousuf was born in Mardin, a city in the east of the Ottoman Empire, in 1908.

He was brought up in Turkish Armenia in a very modest environment and in some difficult political conditions.

Yousuf karsh biography

He moved to Canada in 1924 when he was sixteen. He lived with his uncle who was a photographer in Sherbrook in Quebec. He attended school there and worked with his uncle who trained him in the photography field.

Career Life

After Yousuf’s uncle recommended him to be apprenticed, he apprenticed himself in 1928 in the studio of John Garo, who was also a photograp