Edy actively holds various workshops to foster a new generation of Indonesian photographers and participates in World Press Photo’s training-for-trainers in Amsterdam. He began as a stringer at Agence France-Presse and Getty Images News Service, and his works can be found in National Geographic Indonesia, TIME Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, and various UN-related publications. In October 2012, Edy launched PASSING, a book containing a number of his most excellent works during his fourteen-year career. In May 2018, he launched his second book, WILDTOPIA, which tells the absurd reality of today’s zoos.