Matthew F. Hudson
San Francisco, California
Photographer

Throughout his life he has traveled extensively. In 1981 he took leave of his career in the travel industry to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His experience there would later prove to be pivotal to his emerging artistic career. However his academic pursuits were put on hold in 1983 when he was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and later in 1993 with an acquired immune deficiency (AIDS).
By 1994, with his health in a state of decline he made the decision to move to San Francisco to participate in many of the clinical drug trials of the region. It was during one of these trails that Hudson picked up an old Nikon camera and began to study photography.
His remarkable talent ability is to capture what Henri Cartier-Bresson calls the decisive moment, that moment being when all elements in the composition come together to reveal a formal beauty. Not only does Mr. Hudson's work demonstrate a decisive moment, it sustains and increases its appeal with repeated viewings.
Why? The composition communicates both beauty and truth about the culture and the environment being recorded. It is the message that it records (not just the photographic images of the world) that benefits and influences the common man and the world community.
Matthew Hudson approaches his life’s work by embracing a philosophy of mindfulness, and speaking the truth. It is all of these qualities together that determine the decisive moment and mirror how he expresses himself as an artist through the medium of photography, this being an expression of his true nature. For Mr. Hudson, each day is measured by the smallest of components, the simplest of actions and the grace in which one enters into the moment.