For more than two decades, the landlocked mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been the centre of a territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It is one of the longest and little-known running conflicts in the former Soviet Union, and the violent flare-up of April 2016 showed that the dispute has only escalated further since the cease-fire brokered by Russia in 1994. When news of the April war hit Amenia’s capital of Yerevan, many civilians headed to the breakaway republic to volunteer their services. Journalist Gus Palmer, who travelled there in November 2017, saw parents pack their sons off to join the army, following the same fate of their fathers who had fought in the war of the 90s that killed 30,000 people and diplaced millions more. He photographed everyday people of Nagorno-Karabakh, living not just with the memory of a turbulent past but an ever more uncertain present.