Laurie Toby Edison has been a jeweler since 1969 and a photographer since 1989. She has been exhibiting her work at conventions for over 25 years; retrospectives of her jewelry and sculpture have been featured at LACon, Noreascon and ConJose. In 1994 she published Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes, a black & white fine art photography book (edited and text by Debbie Notkin). Edison's photographs have been exhibited in New York City, Tokyo, Kyoto, Toronto, Boston, London, and San Francisco. Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes was published in 2004. Her recently completed work on Women of Japan, clothed portraits of women from many cultures and backgrounds, is an exhibition at Nippon 2007. 100 of her photographs were shown in her exhibition "Meditations on the Body: Recent Work" at the National Museum of Art in Osaka in August 2001.