Biography

I’ve always had a desire to create beautiful images with my cameras. To that end, when I put a lot of thought into an artist’s statement many years ago, I distilled it down to one word… BEAUTY. I strive to create images that you would want to hang on your walls, and just stare at their beauty. But beauty doesn’t just mean pretty pictures. There’s also a haunting beauty in a cemetery or a long-abandoned building. There has to be meaning and value to the subjects I photograph. I want the viewer to not only appreciate the beauty in my subjects, but I want them to wonder what their deeper significance is. What’s the history of the location? What is that abstract image depicting? Or, I had no idea that particular subject matter could be so beautiful. My aim is to make you not just notice a picture, but to delve deeper into it and ask questions about it… and to want to be there.

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Michael Hudson has been a full time photographer for over thirty years. His fine art images have been seen on book covers, ads, websites, magazines, and collected by hundreds of private and corporate art collectors in the US and abroad. He has built relationships with several fine art poster publishers for more than twenty-five years and sold over 10,000 posters in that time, and has been a featured photographer in several publications, including COLOR, a magazine for collectors of fine art color photography. Michael self-published his first photography book in 2015, Under October Skies, with images from almost ten years of photographing Acadia National Park in Maine. In 2018, he led his first solo landscape photography workshop in Acadia, now an annual event.

He won top prize in the International Garden Photographer of the Year Black & White competition in 2017 and has also been a finalist in the Hasselblad Masters and a nominee or honorable mention in the Black and White Spider, ReFocus, and Epson Panorama awards. Recently he was a featured artist/ writer in the prestigious Medium Format Magazine and his landscape images were featured in a 21-page feature in Elements Magazine.

His images have been seen in hundreds of publications and outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, COLOR Magazine, Washingtonian, Opal Magazine, the Discovery Channel, Outdoor Photography (UK), Good Morning America (ABC-TV) as well as on countless websites. He has also exhibited his photography in several galleries, as well as a solo show at the British Consulate/ Chicago.

Born in Australia, Michael grew up in Sydney, then California (very briefly) and Wisconsin before moving to England at the age of twelve. There he developed a love of history and travel, and quickly learned to bring a camera everywhere. On home leave trips, his family would stop off and visit diverse locations in Southeast Asia, North America, the Pacific Islands, Iceland and Europe, providing rich opportunities to learn travel photography and explore other cultures and lands. Attending college near Chicago, he became the newspaper and yearbook photographer and taught himself darkroom skills, in the process learning how to print fine art photographs and graduating with a degree in Studio Art and Photography, developing a lifelong love for photography as an art form.

He lives near Chicago. In Maine, he is represented by Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, and is currently looking for more gallery representation. He's also available for commissions and assignments.