Photo exhibition honours heroic Vietnamese mothers

ABO/NDO- A photo exhibition themed “Memory and Legend” by Colonel, journalist and photographer Tran Hong officially opened at the Ho Guom Cultural Information Centre in Hoan Kiem District of Hanoi on April 25.

As part of a series of activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975– 2025), the exhibition features 50 portraits of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers—vivid symbols of motherhood, and quiet but enduring patriotism.

The exhibition will last until May 25.

The works were created by Tran Hong over nearly half a century, from 1976 to 2020.

Each photograph captures a fragment of time, a life story, portraying Vietnamese women and mothers as both humble and extraordinary.

Some bid farewell to their husbands and sons who never returned from the battlefield. Others took up arms themselves, or quietly sheltered cadres and supported the resistance from the rear. However, they all share a common aspiration of peace for their homeland, independence for their nation, and a brighter future for generations to come.

The exhibition offers a space where art meets the public, where the past connects with the present, and where today's youth can engage with the lives, struggles, and sacrifices of earlier generations.

(Source: NDO)