Ralph a clevenger biography books

Ralph A. Clevenger grew up on the coast of North Africa and began diving in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea at the age of 7 with his father. In the early 60s, he was strongly influenced by Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s films and television shows about the undersea world and decided early on to become a marine biologist when he “grew up”.

He eventually went on to study zoology and worked for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego as a diver/biologist before attending Brooks Institute of Photography. Clevenger was a senior faculty member at the Brooks Institute for 33 years, teaching courses in Natural History and Underwater Photography, among other professional photo and video courses.

Based in Santa Barbara, California, Ralph is now retired from his commercial photography business but still travels extensively sharing images and video via his website and Instagram account.

 Much of his photography is now dedicated to supporting environmental and social issues h