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Niu Weiyu (Chinese: 牛畏予; January 1927 – 3 June 2020) was a Chinese
photojournalist whose career started in the 1940s with coverage of the Chinese
Communist Party's wartime experiences and continued after 1949. She is praised for
her photographs of ordinary workers and ethnic groups, and as one of the few women
in photography, she specialized in female images.

Niu was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Photographers
Association. Her husband, Gao Fan (1922-2004) was also a wartime and post-1949
photographer.

Life and career

Niu Weiyu was born in Tanghe, Henan in January 1927. In 1945, Niu entered Counter-
Japanese Military and Political University, and in 1947 became an officer in the
Political Department of the Liberated Area. She became a photographer attached to
the Eighth Route Army, then turned to news photography for North China Pictorial
and other journals.

After 1949, she became head of the Xinhua News Agency department of photography
until her retirement in 1982. In 1975, as the Cultural Revolution was coming to an
end, she went to Tibet, traveling by jeep from Chengdu.[citation needed]

Niu died on 3 June 2020, at the age of 93.

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