The exhibition, entitled “Chan dung Vietnam - Mot cai nhin tu ben ngoai” (Vietnam Portrait - A look from outside), featured different classes of Vietnamese people from 1855 to 1915.

During the colonial period, foreign photographers, especially French photographers, took many photos of the country, residential areas and people in occupied areas. In Indochina, they left a large data store of thousands of photos, many of which depict the daily lives of Vietnamese people in the early part of the 20^th century.