​Strong international team to make the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition

The award winning American photographer Lynsey Addario and the BBC World’s chief correspondent Lyse Doucet will, together with the Nobel Peace Center, create the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition 2014 on Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. The laureates open the exhibition entitled “Malala and Kailash” in Oslo on 11 December.

- This team ensures a power and quality to the exhibition that our audience will get to enjoy. We are very proud and happy that international capacities like Lynsey Addario and Lyse Doucet accepted our commission to make this year’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition, says Bente Erichsen, Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Center.

The making of the official Nobel Peace Prize exhibition is an annual occurrence that spans a mere eight weeks, from the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the new Peace Prize laureate, to the exhibition is opened by the laureate in December. This is the tenth consecutive Nobel Peace Prize exhibition, filling the entire first level of the Nobel Peace Center, situated on the City Hall Square in Oslo.

- It is a great privilege to be commissioned by the Nobel Peace Center. I have the greatest respect and admiration for the work of Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, and their efforts to highlight the plight of children in their respective countries and around the world, and help fight for every child's right to education. I am honoured to help bring awareness to their work and their cause, says Lynsey Addario.

- It is a wonderful honour to work with the Nobel Peace Center again, as well as with the award winning photo journalist Lynsey Addario. We live in a world where young people make up a great and growing percentage of the population in many countries. And in conflicts of our time, children often bear the brunt of the violence and hardship. I look forward to hearing more from two noble champions of children's rights who come from South Asia, where I have reported for many years, says Lyse Doucet.

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai have jointly been awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. As per tradition, the laureates will open the Nobel Peace Prize exhibtion on Thursday 11 December at 17.00. “Malala and Kailash” opens to the public at 12.00 noon Friday 12 December, with free entry for all through Tuesday 30 December.

- It is the tenth time we make the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition. Malala Yousafzai is the youngest laureate in history and for the first time, children and children’s rights is in focus. Lynsey Addario and Lyse Doucet both have worked with women and children’s rights, and together we will make a great exhibition about two brave Nobel Peace Prize laureates, says Liv Astrid Sverdrup, Director of Exhibitions at the Nobel Peace Center.

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BIOGRAPHY LYSE DOUCET:
Lyse Doucet is the BBC’s award winning Chief International Correspondent who also presents for BBC World TV and World Service Radio. She is regularly deployed to present special news coverage from the field, and report across the BBC’s domestic and global outlets. She has been based in Abidjan, Kabul, Islamabad, Teheran, Amman and Jerusalem and has covered major stories in the region for more than 20 years. Lyse’s most recent awards include an Emmy and a Peabody in the United States in 2014 for her team’s reporting from Syria. This year Lyse was awarded an O.B.E in the Queen’s Honours list for her services to Broadcasting. She holds six honorary doctorates from leading Canadian and British Universities. Lyse has worked with the Nobel Peace Centre on several projects. Most notably she interviewed Martti Ahtisaari and wrote the texts for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition ‘The Broker’, and in 2012 she opened the photo exhibition In Afghanistan.
Twitter @bbclysedoucet 

BIOGRAPHY LYNSEY ADDARIO:
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist based in London, where she photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. In 2000, she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, Congo, and Libya, and shoots features primarily focused on human rights issues and humanitarian crises across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship; the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award.
Her photo series ‘Veiled Rebellion’, documenting the plight of women in Afghanistan, was, together with Tim Hetherington’s photo series ‘Infidel’, part of the Nobel Peace Center’s extensive exhibition In Afghanistan i 2012.
Twitter: @lynseyaddario

Follow our exhibition blog (in Norwegian only) for pictures and progress on the making of the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2014: http://nobelpeacecenter.wordpress.com/

Media who wish to be present at the exhibition opening 11 December must register to Kirsti Svenning, Information Advisor at the Nobel Peace Center, on phone +47 95191315 or email ks@nobelpeacecenter.org (NOTE: press pool, limited space.)