My first answer is all wrong :-((
I was talking about a link to a page (that's easy to find) but a link to a block is not possible :-))
A possible solution is to customize you page search.php but it is already similar to quick search (Main Menu - Tab Members - submenu Search)

As for the members photos, the link to use in the new block you will create is simply photos.php (but I think that there is still a pagination problem in this file... First results page is displaying well, but links to see more page 2, 3, etc doesn't work)