 His beloved grandmother had been affected by the disease and he was moved to bring attention to the treatment of madness and dementia in Brazil and possibly in other places in the world where the mentally ill are often warehoused in asylums and become even more truly mad, This led to his series of photographs inside the Juqueri, Latin America's largest insane asylum.In order to seek out and understand the depth of what occurs there Edinger moved inside the asylum to live among the people housed there.The result of his search was the receipt of the Ernst Haas Award from the Maine Photographic Workshop.