Yau Leung

{{Short description|Hong Kong photographer}}

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| caption = Comic Stall on Reclamation Street, a photograph by Yau Leung

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| birth_date = 1941

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| death_date = {{death year and age|1997|1941}}

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Yau Leung (邱良) (1941–1997) was a well regarded photographer in Hong Kong. Professionally a unit still photographer for Shaw Brothers Studio, he is also known for his photographs of Hong Kong street life.{{Cite web|author=Tim Wong |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/timwong/100072543/yau-leung-was-the-chinese-cartier-bresson-why-isnt-he-better-known/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107160550/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/timwong/100072543/yau-leung-was-the-chinese-cartier-bresson-why-isnt-he-better-known/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 January 2014 |title=Yau Leung was the Chinese Cartier-Bresson. Why isn't he better known? |website=Telegraph Blogs |date=1 January 2014 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph}} He has been called the "Bresson of Hong Kong", referencing the famous pioneer of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004).{{Cite web|title=From the Collections: 'Two Women (Gloucester Road, 1961)' by Yau Leung|url=https://stories.mplus.org.hk/en/blog/from-the-collections-two-women-1961-by-yau-leung/|publisher=M+|date=26 August 2019|website=stories.mplus.org.hk|language=en|access-date=8 May 2020}}

He founded the monthly magazine Photography Life in 1973. In 1980, he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Photo Art.

Yau died in 1997 from injuries sustained in a fall.{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659416,00.html|magazine=Time |title=Camera Obscura|author=Liam Fitzpatrick|date=6 September 2007|access-date=28 May 2017}} A selection of his photographs, edited by Sum Yi Ching, was published posthumously in 1999 under the title Images of Hong Kong 1960s–1970s.