This was demonstrated at Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 18, 2009. December 23, 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, widely recognized as Canada’s leading portrait photographer of the 20th century. To celebrate this milestone, the Portrait Gallery of Canada (PGC), a program of Library and Archives Canada, in collaboration with the Canada Science and Technology Museum (CSTM), will present a series of events and activities in 2009. Festival Karsh will include a trail of locations significant to Mr. Karsh’s life and work, a major exhibition at the CSTM, a Karsh website and a roster of special events and programming. After its showing at the Museum, the exhibition will be available to galleries and museums nationally and internationally until 2012. Share your Karsh images and stories! Festival Karsh is a collaborative undertaking that explores Yousuf Karsh as a storyteller. You are invited to share the Karsh portraits in your family and to tell us your own stories. Engaging images and stories may be included in the major Karsh exhibition which will open at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in June 2009. Or perhaps you would like to add your original portrait to the national portrait collection!

1. My Karsh / Mon Karsh April 18, 2009

3. Dr. Lilly Koltun

4. René Arthur (En Baron de Metternich) 1935

5. Jacqueline Ross

6. Alan Wotherspoon

7. Paul Lamoureux

8. Nancy McFarlane

9. My grandmother, Doris Gale and her three sons

10. Back of the Round Picture

11. My Interview with Karsh

12. Yousuf Karsh with his wife Estrallita

13. Yousuf Karsh and his wife Estrelita

14. Memento Mori

15. Portrait of Yousuf Karsh

16. Eric-Karsh

17. Karsh Style

18. Cupcake in B&W

19. Eijo Toyonaga and Yousuf Karsh

20. Merci / Thank you http://www.flickr.com/groups/mykarsh-monkarsh/