Beginning in the mid-1980’s, Mike began photographing ordinary life on the streets of London. What started as just random snapshots of day to day life turned into an ongoing project that lasted for several years. As well as celebrities attending film premieres and the like, he also photographed ordinary commuters at Waterloo Station, protestors in Hyde Park, tourists in Trafalgar Square and the homeless living under the viaducts in Lambeth. Londoners are a very diverse lot, and there’s never been a shortage of interesting people to see on the streets every day.

But the Londoners project has expanded since it began in the 1980s, to encompass Britons of all walks of life, and in all parts of the United Kingdom. Flower girls in Sussex, the upper crust at a polo match in Windsor, pensioners on the coast and picnickers by the Thames in Oxfordshire have all been immortalized on film by Hudson’s camera.

It would be impossible to know where most of the people in these images are today. The oldest photographs were made more than thirty-five years ago. Small children then are likely parents of children themselves and now in their 40’s. No doubt most of the older adults have passed away, some perhaps not long after the images were made. And for that reason, these images are a record of history– moments in time never to be repeated, of people and a time that has long since passed away into history.