Profile:

Yvette Marie Dostatni is a 35-year-old Chicago native who has been photographing professionally since the age of 18.  Her work has appeared in SPIN, Smart Money magazine, Shape magazine and National Geographic.  She is a frequent contributer to the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Chicago Magazine and The Chicago Reader.

In the year 2000, she was selected as one of eight full-time photographers to document the city of Chicago as part of the Comer Foundation.  She is also the winner of numerous documentary photography awards, including two consecutive Magazine Photographer of the Year awards for portraiture.

Currently, Yvette Marie Dostatni's portfolio is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.