:: Earnest Brooks II - Arts - 1975

Since the 1960s, Ernie Brooks has been one of the diving world's leading underwater photographers, educators and ambassadors. He established the Brooks Institute, where he helped pioneer new concepts in photographic education and introduced far ranging workshops for professional and amateur photographers. The list of famous photographers who graduated from the Brook Institute is legion. As project leader or principal member, Brooks has participated in projects of international recognition including the photographic investigation into the Shroud of Turin (1978, Shroud of Turin Research Project) and photo-documentation of Arctic research station activities, 1977, sponsored by the McGinnis Foundation of Toronto, Canada. He served as a keynote speaker and consultant to the Dillingham Corporation; Hasselblad Incorporated; Department of Fish and Game, National Parks Service; Texaco Corporation, Nikon Inc., and was an advisor on the International Panel to the New Zealand Centre for Photography. Brooks was a project leader and member of the international panel in the "Focus on New Zealand" event, 1985, and led a photographic research and travel expedition to the Sea of Cortez aboard the Institute's vessel "Just Love" in 1986.