The event, which opened with a 3-D projected echo-images screening by Nicephone Niepce Museum, included programmes of photo exhibitions, videos, projected echo-images, conferences and documentary films.

There were seven photo exhibitions by 13 Vietnamese and French photographers. Liza Nguyen expressed her view of the war and its aftermath in a photo exhibition entitled "The Surface", while the images of Vietnamese families and Vietnam today were depicted in photos by Christian Milovanoff, Alain Leloup and Gael Pollin.

Vietnamese and international photographers will have the chance to join a roundtable discussion, titled "Should photography become a subject at school?" and a conference "New technology applied to photographic history".

The Vietnam-France "Photography Month" will last through to July 16.