(VOVworld) – A photo exhibit on Vietnam before it opened its doors to the world was held on Sunday at the Vietnam House in Paris, giving French viewers rare insight into the lives of Vietnamese people in the 1980s.
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Hang Dao street in 1988. (Photo: Michel Blanchard) |
The exhibit includes 30 photographs by photographer Michel Blanchard, former head of the AFP News Agency’s office in Vietnam. The photos reveal Vietnamese people’s lives between 1981 and 1988 when Blanchard worked in Vietnam and highlight Hanoi’s Old Quarter, Ha Long Bay, and the old Quoc Hoc Hue High School.