THE RELEASE The crowd gathered outside the house of Aung San Suu Kyi on the evening of her release. Rangoon, Burma. November. 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture Aung San Suu Kyi talks to the supporters from behind the fence outside her home just after she was released. Rangoon, Burma. November 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture A supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi shows satisfaction with the news of the release of “the Lady” reported on the front page of a newspaper. Rangoon, Burma. November, 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to her party’s headquarters on the day after her release. Rangoon, Burma. November, 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture Aung San Suu Kyi’s supporters welcome the arrival of their leader outside the NLD’s headquarters. Rangoon, Burma. November, 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture Aung San Suu Kyi greets her supporters gathered outside the NLD’s headquarers. Rangoon, Burma. November, 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture Aung San Suu Kyi’s first public speech after her release. Rangoon, Burma. November, 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture Aung San Suu Kyi visits an HIV centre some days after her release. Rangoon, Burma. November, 2010. Photo: Pietro Masturzo/OnOff Picture THE ELECTIONS NLD-supporters go wild with enthusiasm after hearing party leader Aung San Suu Kyi speak at a rally at Dagon Port Township, south of Rangoon. Burma. 21 March, 2012. Photo: Sim Chi Yin/VII Mentor Program Thousands of people line the roads, waiting for over two hours to see Aung San Suu Kyi at a rally at Dagon Port Township. Burma. 21 March, 2012. Photo: Sim Chi Yin/VII Mentor Program Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at a rally at Dagon Port Township. Burma, 21 March, 2012. Photo: Sim Chi Yin/VII Mentor Program During the election campaign Aung San Suu Kyi addresses a crowd of supporters at Yuzana Garden City in Dagon South Township. Burma. 21 March, 2012. Photo: James Nachtwey During a campaign speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, children in the audience cheer her words, as a young Buddhist monk stands by. Kawhmu, Burma. 22 March, 2012. Photo: James Nachtwey Aung San Suu Kyi addresses a crowd of supporters from a stage set up in Kawhmu, the district from which she ran for a seat in Parliament. The stage is decorated with a picture of her father, the founder of modern Burma, as well as the party symbol of the “Fighting Peacock”. 22 March, 2012. Photo: James Nachtwey Mother Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi Finally, Aung San Suu Kyi is coming to Oslo to deliver her Nobel Lecture on 16 June – 21 years after her eldest son received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in 1991. This exhibit is a tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi, her strength and untiring battle for democracy in Burma. Despite widespread fraud in Burma’s 2010 national elections, and the military’s continuing political domination, positive po- litical change in the country has recently come about. Several political prisoners have been freed, and on 13 November, 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. In April this year a supplemental vote was carried out. Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League of Democracy (NLD), partic- ipated in the election, and won an overwhelming victory. Optimism can again be found among the Burmese people. Suu Kyi is met on all sides by jubilant masses with flags and banners hailing her as “Mother Democracy”.