 He also worked as a freelance photographer for Brazilian and North American newspapers and magazines such as "Veja", "Time", "Newsweek", "Life", "Rolling Stone", "Vanity Fair", "The New York Times Magazine", among many others.In 1977 he studied with Philippe Halsman (1906–1979), the great master portraitist.In 1978 after two years photographing the Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn, Edinger had an individual exhibit "Hassidic Jews” at the International Center of Photography in New York.