Laurie Toby Edison (born March 5, 1942) is an internationally exhibited American artist, photographer, and visual activist.

Their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including New York City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Beijing, Seoul, Budapest, and San Francisco.

Edison practices environmental portraiture, collaborating with their models to find settings which reflect their own sense of themselves.

Edison and Notkin spent ten years working among Fat Acceptance activists before the publication of Women En Large.

The keynote essay is by Debbie Notkin and Richard F. Dutcher, and the introduction is by masculinity scholar Michael Kimmel.

[15] A retrospective of one hundred of Edison's photographs “Meditations on the Body: Recent Work” was exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Osaka in 2001.

[16] Edison has photographs in the permanent collections of Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, and the National Museum of Art, Osaka.

The National Museum of Art in Osaka included their photographs in their 35th anniversary exhibition, The Allure of the Collection, in 2012.

[17] The Tate Gallery in London has purchased Women En Large for its Martin Parr photobook collection.

[19] Photographs from Pandemic Shadows have appeared in gallery shows in Budapest, Chicago, Barcelona, and Rome.