WATERTOWN, Mass. — Project Save Photographic Archive, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit dedicated to preserving the global Armenian experience through photography, announced today its lineup of fall programming, including its first major exhibition in the organization’s gallery and archive space, and two events in its popular “Conversations on Photography” series.
French-Armenian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Astrig Agopian’s multimedia exhibition “Like There’s No Tomorrow” will open at Project Save on November 13, and run through January 17, 2026. The exhibit focuses on the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region Armenians have inhabited for millennia and whose cultural heritage has endured centuries of upheaval. Agopian’s exhibition digs deeply into questions of cultural heritage, identity in diaspora, and wartime displacement. The exhibit is in partnership with ART WORKS Projects, a Chicago- and Hague-based visual arts non-profit.
“Like There’s No Tomorrow” incorporates photographs and video that document the lives of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh as an Azerbaijan-led war broke out in September 2020 and escalated in 2023 into mass displacement, widely described by human rights organizations as ethnic cleansing. Agopian’s travels to the area garnered interview footage and extensive photographic documentation of war and its effects, following individuals and families as they navigated violence, loss and displacement. The project combines powerful photography, oral histories, and multimedia assets into a living archive that also serves educational and advocacy purposes.
“Agopian invites us to consider how people live in and endure the unimaginable: war, hatred, and revisionist history, and what they cling to or carry when forced to flee,” said Arto Vaun, Executive Director of Project Save. “Her work reflects Project Save’s mission to preserve and share the stories and cultural materials that define the global Armenian experience.”
To deepen the historical narrative, Vaun says the exhibition will include photographs from Project Save’s own collections, presented alongside Agopian’s contemporary work. These archival images document Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh across the 19th and 20th centuries, amplifying the continuum of Armenian presence and resilience in the region.
Like There’s No Tomorrow is supported through ART WORKS Projects’ Emerging Lens Fellowship. Partially funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Lens provides unrestricted stipends, professional mentorship, editorial and production support to emerging visual storytellers across the globe working to document human rights issues through lived experiences. More details on the Fellowship are here.
