About Ben Cooper Photography

With Space Shuttle Discovery in 2010. Credit: Robert Pearlman

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Ben Cooper is an award-winning photographer at Cape Canaveral, FL, and has photographed over 400 launches to date. As an official photographer for some of the biggest launch providers, as well as for NASA and several media outlets over the past 20+ years, he has captured many of the most well-known and iconic space mission photos taken in the last two decades. Working in the final three years of the Space Shuttle program, he also covered both engineering photography requirements and public affairs imagery.


He is the author of the 2019 book Launch Photography.

He specializes in aerospace, astronomical and travel photography, including traveling the globe to chase solar eclipses and the aurora, and has photographed on all seven continents. He is an alumnus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Minor in Space Studies/space history.

He is a winner of the 2019 Kolcum Award "for excellence in telling the space story along Florida’s Space Coast and throughout the world."



Major Clients Include:

-SpaceX
-United Launch Alliance

-NASA
-Northrop Grumman (fmrly. Orbital Sciences/ ATK)
-Lockheed Martin

-Blue Origin

-Amazon
-National Geographic (incl. cover, below)
-The New York Times (incl. front page)
-USA Today (incl. front page mention)
-The Wall Street Journal
-The Boston Globe (incl. cover)
-Getty Images & Corbis
-AP, Reuters, AFP, UPI & other wire services
-Spaceflight Now
-Aviation Week & Space Technology
-collectSPACE

-SPACE.com

-Astronomy Now

-Astronomy Magazine & Astronomy.com
-Sky & Telescope magazine
-Discover magazine

-Popular Photography magazine

-The FAA
-NBC Nightly News
-CBS Evening News

-ABC World News Tonight

-ABC Good Morning America
-Fox News Channel
-National Geographic online
-MSNBC / NBCnews.com
-FoxNews.com
-Yahoo! News
-BBC
-Huffington Post
-Popular Science
-The Daily Mail
-Science Faction
-Superstock
-CNET
-Petapixel
-Pacific Standard Magazine
-SpaceWeather.com
-Scholastic and Weekly Reader
-Daytona Beach News-Journal (feature story)

and many more

LAUNCH PHOTOGRAPHY: THE BOOK

My first book, Launch Photography (2019), is now out of print, but may still be available secondhand on eBay, Amazon, BarnesAndNoble.com or elsewhere, so please check around!



No new signed copies are available from me. However, if you already have a copy you would like signed, you may mail your book to me to be signed and returned using media mail (about $5 each way).


Thank you all for your support!


 


Recognition:

-Eleven time winner in the prestigious Aviation Week & Space Technology photo contest: first place 2008; first place 2010; both second and third place 2011; third place 2008, 2018 and 2021; both second and third place in 2020; both second and third place in 2023; and honorable mentions/editors choice in 2009, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.


-Recipient of the 2019 Kolcum News and Communications Award by the National Space Club


-24-time NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)


-Flickr photo of the year for 2015 & named in top photos of the year in several other years
-Multiple time NASA Image of the Day (www.nasa.gov) plus many homepage featured images
-Displays at countless NASA & industry award ceremonies and center exhibits
-The World at Night (TWAN) collection

-and many more photos of the day or week on other major websites


-Featured on the front page of both the New York Times and USA Today, the most circulated papers in the United States. Featured in a USA Today cover story on attending the final space shuttle launch, with this website cited. Featured in the New York Times Travel section with a story on viewing the remaining shuttle launches.
-Published in dozens of publications including National Geographic and books by astronauts.
-Featured on every major national news network (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox)
-Featured in Popular Photography magazine five times over several years.
-One of the first people featured on Petapixel.com

Photographing in New Zealand, Norway and Hawaii.

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