b. 1959, Fort Rae, Northwest Territories
First Nations Affiliation: Dene

In 1983, Dorothy Chocolate completed a one-year photo technician programme at Red River Community College in Winnipeg before interning and eventually becoming photography editor for the Northwest Territories Native Press. There, she won the Chretien/Jerome Award numerous times for her photo work, and in 1988, the Best Photography Award from the National Aboriginal Communications Society. A founding member of the Indian and Inuit Photographers' Association, Chocolate has also been active as a curator: from 1982 to 1989, she conceived and organized six principal exhibitions including Photographs in Denendeh, which travelled nationally. In recent exhibitions such as Raven's Story, Chocolate's own practice has explored the narrative juxtaposition of text and image. Working also as an Assistant to the Victim, and Witness Assistant for the Yellowknife Crown Prosecutor's office, Chocolate plans to photographically document her travels in that capacity.

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Yellowknife Visitors Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

S E L E C T E D   B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Henry, Victoria, Shelley Niro, and Greg Staats. From Iceberg to Iced Tea. Thunder Bay, Ontario: Thunder Bay Art Gallery; Ottawa, Ontario: Carleton University Art Gallery, 1994.

"Native artists take spotlight for benefit." Ottawa Citizen, 12 June 1997, p. F-3.

Ode'Min: Contemporary Native Arts, Crafts and Photography. Sudbury, Ontario: Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, 1988.