Phillip Toledano is a New York-based British artist born in 1968 in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. He grew up in London and Casablanca, received a BA in English literature from Tufts University in Boston and embarked upon a career in advertising before abandoning that plan in favour of photography.

Phillip considers himself a conceptual artist: Everything starts with an idea, and the idea determines the execution. Consequently, his work, much of which is of a socio-political nature, varies in medium, ranging from photography to installation, sculpture, painting and video.

Phillip's commercial and editorial work has appeared in numerous high profile publications such as Vanity Fair, The New York Times magazine, The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, GQ, Interview, Wallpaper, The Sunday Times magazine, The In ...