Twenty-three Prestigious Awards
including
Cherry Kearton Medal and Award
World's Best Photography Book
Nature Photographer of the Year
Outstanding Book of the Year
Best Book Arts Craftsmanship
Gold Ink Award
Benjamin Franklin Award
Craft Art Science Award
Stefansson Medal and Award
To date Pat and Rosmarie Keough and ANTARCTICA have been awarded
11 international gold, 1 international silver, and 11 Canadian honours.
Pat and Rosemarie Keough were awarded the AFC Conservation Artist Award, March 2007. “SUPPORTING NATURE THROUGH ART” The Artists for Conservation Foundation is a non-profit juried association of international artists dedicated to celebrating and protecting natural heritage. The AFC Conservation Artist Award gives recognition for outstanding artistic talent and extraordinary contribution to the conservation cause.
Royal Geographical Society together with the Institute of British Geographers conferred the 2004 Cherry Kearton Medal and Award to Pat and Rosemarie Keough for outstanding photography of the Natural World. This honour commemorates British photographer Cherry Kearton, 1871-1940. The Keoughs are the first Canadians to be receive this honour. Previous recipients include Sir David Attenborough, Alastair Fothergill, and Des and Jen Bartlett.
Pat and Rosemarie Keough are distinguished as Nature Photographer of the Year by the International Photography Awards competition 2003. In this same illustrious event ANTARCTICA was acclaimed World's Best Photography Book.
An additional gold award, Best Sunset, and a silver for Best Wildlife were bestowed for specific images from ANTARCTICA.
At BookExpo America 2003, ANTARCTICA won the Outstanding Book of the Year – Best Book Arts Craftsmanship in the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2003 competition. Open to independent, university, and small press publishers throughout North America, the IPPY competition rewards excellence, courage, creativity, and independent spirit in publishing.
North America’s premier publishing honor Gold - Fine Edition Books in the
Gold Ink Awards 2003, was awarded to ANTARCTICA at GraphExpo 2003.
Gold Ink Award winners become members of an elite group of the most respected and influential creators of print media this continent has to offer
– now including Pat and Rosemarie Keough.
ANTARCTICA won Best in Category and a coveted Benjamin Franklin Award for being the world’s best novelty book at the 2002 Premier Print Award competition. The Benny is the Oscar of the international printing and graphics arts community, and is conferred solely to winning entries that are flawless. Adjudicated from thousands of entries worldwide, winners of a Benny demonstrate the ability to create visual masterpieces and represent the unique partnership between designer and printer, need and creativity, technology and craft.
The International Association of Printing House Craftsmen honoured ANTARCTICA with Gold for Fine Press Books; and then at the 2002 Best of the Best Awards Ceremony, with the Craft, Art, Science Award. The judges, who created this new international award to adequately acknowledge ANTARCTICA, wrote:
An all-star team of Craftsmen from across North America were
given a golden chance to show their amazing artistry, their
consummate craftsmanship and their superlative science.
We honor this team for their towering achievement and are
humbled to present the first ever, IAPHC Craft, Art, Science Award
to Pat and Rosemarie Keough, Nahanni Productions,
Hemlock Printers, and Felton Bookbinding for the production
of ANTARCTICA.
In Canada, the country in which ANTARCTICA was published, ANTARCTICA won a Rock Award 2003 from the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada; a citation from The Alcuin Society for Excellence in Book Design; declared a Finalist at the the 2003 Banff Mountain Book Festival, and an Honorable Mention at the Roloff Beny 2004 Photography Book Competition. At the Canadian Gallery of Superb Printing 2002 competition ANTARCTICA won the Gold, the Best of Show and the People's Choice awards. ANTARCTICA was the First prize winner at Canada's Applied Arts Award 2002, for outstanding technical execution. Hemlock Printers Ltd., the firm which printed ANTARCTICA, awarded this tome the Job the Year 2001 and the Job of the Month, December 2001 for exquisite printing and creative design.
In 2007 Rosemarie Keough was bestowed the Stefansson Medal and Certificate by The Explorers Club, Canadian Chapter. "Not only was this award richly deserved for [her] tremendous contribution to the club, but also for [her] stunning achievement with [her] photographic art book on Antarctica. The committee felt, especially in light of the International Polar Year, that no more fitting recipient could be found."
