After leaving Boston University with a Master's degree in Journalism, Bill Edmunds began working as Chief Photographer with a daily newspaper in Massachusetts. At the newspaper Edmunds directed a staff of four photographers and was responsible for creating assignments and developing stories. He cultivated relationships within the local communities, particularly with area drug task forces within area police departments and contributed breaking news stories on a regular basis.

Edmunds frequently promoted local artists as an Arts reporter documenting the local and national Blues and Jazz scenes.Newspapers were early adopters of digital imaging technology and Bill Edmunds began gathering developing methods of image handling and the remote transmission of both stories and photographs as well as other burgeoning issues in the new field.

In the 1990s Edmunds began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Photography where he developed the Elmwood Avenue Project and won grants for his students to fund the two-year street photography project. Throughout his teaching career he maintained his position as a freelance photographer for a number of Boston area outlets.

When the school moved to Florida, Edmunds began lending his skills to the high-tech industry and was involved with firms developing video software and 3D technologies before founding Ocean Park Photography based in Maine and Massachusetts.

Edmunds has also returned to teaching part-time at the Visual Communciations department at Gibbs School in Boston