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

“I had to face the features in the picture. I was ready to see how aging would unavoidably affect my looks. ...Here I am, standing in front of the closed gate with my arms outspread. ... What am I defending and from what? What am I facing? Could I have taken alternative ways?”

— Hiroko Hagiwara