Sara Anjargolian is a Los Angeles based photographer, writer and attorney.
Born in London to parents of Iranian-Armenian and Iraqi-Armenian descent, Sara spent the first six years of her life in Tehran. With the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, Sara's family immigrated to the United States, settling in Los Angeles.
Sara graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Public Policy. She then went on to law school and received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law. After admission to the California Bar, Sara joined the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. where she worked as a trial lawyer.
In 2002, Sara was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach and study in Armenia. During her two and half years in Armenia, she joined Bars Media, a documentary film studio based in Yerevan, where she wrote, produced and directed several documentaries on contemporary issues facing Armenia today.
Traveling extensively throughout the region, Sara chronicled the lives of Armenians through photography and writing. She also taught courses at the American University of Armenia Law Department, where she later served as Assistant Dean and Associate Professor. Sara's area of specialty and research within the legal sphere is on the status of women in Armenia and their changing roles in today's transitional society – a subject about which she has written and spoken extensively in the U.S. and Armenia.
This website includes Sara Anjargolian's photography and writing from Armenia and beyond, as well as information about her written and spoken work.
Sara resides in Los Angeles where she serves as a policy advisor with the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
Sara is currently working on a photography project documenting the lives of nine separated Armenian families living between Los Angeles and Yerevan. |