Laurie Toby Edison

Who is Laurie Toby Edison?

Laurie Toby Edison is an internationally exhibited portrait photographer. Her three suites of photographs include a series of nude environmental portraits of fat women, a series of nude environmental portraits of a very diverse cross-section of men, and a series of clothed environmental portraits of women living in Japan. Edison's work is black-and-white fine art photography, with an underlying social change message, which she often phrases as "making the invisible visible.”

She was born and raised in New York City, raised in a family of artists and designers. She and her writing partner Debbie Notkin blog about body image and related topics at Body Impolitic. She has two daughters, one a dance choreographer and the other a biotechnology scientist. She’s a long-time resident of San Francisco, and lives in the Mission District.