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 photographs of Laurie Toby Edison ... are sublime black-and-white essays on the beauty of the human body that are also a protest against preconceived images of beauty that discriminate against those who don’t fit the bill.”

— Mary Gallant, Asahi Evening News


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