There is no clear space structure among images, so correlation information of images' space structure could not be utilized effectively. To tackle this problem, a new space relationship feature based image retrieval method was proposed. Firstly, feature vectors were extracted from all images which contain the queried image. And then, all of the every two feature vectors' similarities were calculated to form a similarity matrix. The set of similarity matrix's columns was taken as the new feature vector, namely the new space relationship feature vector, so the former feature vectors could be mapped into a Euclidean space. Finally, similarities were calculated on the new feature space. In this way, the problem of feature vectors' similarity was turned into the new space relationship feature vectors' similarity. The space structure among images was clearer than before on the new feature space, so the accuracy of image retrieval was improved. The experimental results on the Corel database show that the average retrieval precision, recall-precision and visual evaluation metric of the proposed method have advantage over the color histogram in the image retrieval task. The proposed image retrieval method based on the new space relationship feature sufficiently utilizes correlation information of images' space structure and it has better retrieval effect.