Two people and an archive.
Space Photo Editions is Simon Phillipson and Joel Meter. We make beautifully crafted coffee table books from some of the most remarkable and historically important photographs ever taken. Now we want to share those restored photographs with you, to hang in your own home or office.
Who we are
We live in Amsterdam. We both have a background in advertising and design, and we both love space. We do the work on the books ourselves, from searching the archives and restoring the photographs to the design and the writing. Along the way we had help from people who know these missions best: the Apollo astronauts Walt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart, members of the Voyager imaging team, and our co-authors, among them Ted Stryk, a Voyager imaging expert, and Jens Bezemer, who helped with the research and writing for VOYAGER.
It started with Apollo.
In 2014 we started planning a book of the photographs the Apollo astronauts brought home. We made it for ourselves, really: the Apollo photo books we could find were small, poorly printed and made with cheap materials, so we set out to make the book we wanted on our own shelves. With Floris Heyne and Delano Steenmeijer, that became the book Apollo VII-XVII, and this shop began as Apollo Photo Prints. Then came VOYAGER: Photographs from Humanity's Greatest Journey, made with Jens Bezemer, Ted Stryk and Delano Steenmeijer.
Now the whole archive.
The NASA Photo Book took us from a photograph of the Moon made in 1840 to Artemis II in April 2026. Just as with Apollo, we started for ourselves: we wanted these photographs on our own walls. Now we want to share them, because photographs like these don’t only belong in books. They deserve to be seen every day, on the walls of people’s homes. That is why Apollo Photo Prints is now Space Photo Editions, with the whole archive in date order, from before spaceflight to Artemis.
What we do
Find the best surviving source for each photograph. Research the mission, the date and the frame code. Restore it, and write down what it shows.
About NASA
The photographs are courtesy of NASA. We are not part of NASA, and no endorsement by NASA is implied.