Aung san suu kyi

In honor of International Women's Day, TIME looks at some unlikely revolutionaries, from Joan of Arc and Harriet Tubman to Russian punk-rockers.

We interrupt our illness to plead for a little online advocacy on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi . Since 1988 we've had a poster of the great N...

Aung San Suu Kyi; photo by Platon for Time Over the last two decades, many of the world's famous and powerful have found themselves in front of Platon's camera. The renowned portrait photographer dropped his last name early in his career. It happened by mistake after someone in the art department at Vogue Magazine failed to include it in his photo credit. "I was too embarrassed to complain to the creative director because I was

Known for: fighting for the country of Myanmar to become a free and democratic society, being held under house arrest for 21 years as a political dissenter, winning the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Best quote:“If you're feeling helpless, help someone.”

Jim Salvati is an American painter of Contemporary Figurative Fine Art. Works in the film industry as a Visual Concept Designer and Cinematic Artist.

General Aung San (1915-1947) father of Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at 10 Downing Street London to negotiate independence for Burma with the British government on 13 January 1947. #myanmar #myanmar #history