Laurie Toby Edison

Photographer

photo from Women En Large photo from Familiar Men photo from Women of Japan

Women En Large

Images of Fat Nudes

“The fear of fat our culture glories in is no stranger to me. It nearly convinced me to kill myself. To disappear myself, my female, fleshy self. To tidy up, like a good girl, leaving no trace of breasts, buttocks, hips. No folds, no curves. All flat, sterile, a-womanly. To become the anti-woman.”

— Elise Matthesen


Familiar Men

A Book of Nudes

“In [Laurie’s] unadorned captured moments, we are familiar, yet without the artifice of imposed masculinity. There is not one depilated, big-dicked, bubble-butted, pumped-up man-boy among us.”

— John Killacky, model


Women of Japan

The Models’ Words

モデルの言葉

“To complete Women of Japan, I need not only to take more photographs, but also to present my slides to many communities, and discuss with a wide variety of Japanese audiences how they see the work, how they want women of Japan to be represented in the photographs, and what material is appropriate for the accompanying texts.”

— Laurie Toby Edison