National treasure: Photojournalist Minh Loc with his photos at the Historical Moments exhibition (Source: VNA) The Nhung Khoanh Khac Lich Su (HistoricalMoments) exhibition displays 138 photos taken from 1962 to 1984, including thosecaptured in Quang Ninh and Quang Binhprovinces and Hanoi during the 1962-1972 period and in Saigon until1975.
Thehighlights of the exhibition are images shot on April 30, 1975, Liberation Day.
The event alsoincludes photos of the war fought by Vietnamese to protect the northern borderin 1979.
In 1980,Loc, now 80, and several colleagues visited places where they travelledduring the war in northern provinces, and then took numerous photos about thelife of people after the war. They are also displayed at the exhibition.
Speakingat the exhibition’s opening ceremony on April 10, Loc said: “When I die, I can’t bring the photo collection with me, so Ihope the museum can preserve them.”
“As a photographer, I wants topreserve the images so that younger generations can know more about thecountry’s history,” he said.
Loc was born in 1937 in Dong Thap’s Cao Lanh district, and is a member of the Vietnam ArtisticPhotographers’ Association.
Since1975, he has had 69 solo exhibitions on various topics, including Vietnam’s landscapes and red-headed cranes.
He wonthe first prize in the Moscow News Contest in 1968, a silver medal in the IraqPhoto Contest organised by the International Journalists Association in 1978,and the grand prix from the Trade Union Council of the Soviet Union in 1978.
In 1990,he received a prize for excellence from the Red Cross and Red Crescent of theSoviet Union.
The exhibitionwill be open through April 30 at the museum at 2 Le Duan street in District 1.-VNA
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