Edgar is a landscape and portrait photographer who explores the social and environmental components of sustainability through an artistic practice. His work investigates how aesthetic and semiotic framings about socio-ecological systems encode particular assumptions and ideologies about human relationships to each other and to their environments. He completed his Ph.D. in sustainability at Arizona State University which included a significant MFA component, working under Mark Klett to focus on the intersections between the arts and sciences for sustainability. He is a Documenting Detroit Fellow, part of the NYFA Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he focused on the intersection of artistic and scientific ways of knowing. He has exhibited work internationally, most recently having two national solo exhibitions of his work Los Americanx. Edgar’s recently published book Between Two Pines: Ushering in a Sustainable Future Through and Art-Science Practice, explores how artistic and scientific ways of knowing will be necessary for moving towards a more sustainable future. The book integrates text and a body of photographic work expressing how their coupling can better convey how to frame sustainability. He is currently completing his second book, Meanwhile in Detroit, exploring how conceptions of wilderness are incorporated into urban contexts.