"The Roaring Lion": Two Minutes That Changed History

On December 30, 1941, in a living room in Ottawa, Yousuf Karsh, a 33-year-old Armenian-Canadian photographer, waited with his large format camera. The subject of the photo was no ordinary person, but Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister who had just delivered a speech to the Canadian Parliament.Karsh was only given two minutes. Churchill entered the room with a cigar…