Yousuh Karsh is a famous Canadian photographer who was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern part of Ottoman Empire (Turkey). When he was 16, his parents pressured him to move to America to live with his uncle Georg Nakash; whom was also a photographer. Yousuh attend school for a very short time and stayed busy supporting his uncle with the studio work. Nakash saw the potential that his nephew had in photography so in 1928 he arranged for Yousuh an internship under a brilliant photographer living in Boston, by the name of John Garo. In 1931 Yousuh moved back to Canada in order to make a name for himself, soon after moving back he then started working with John Powl. John retired a few years later and Yousuh took over the studio. Karsh was soon
