diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 38b4f88c..e54ceb79 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ LIBRARY_ROOT=./video
 # You should set this to a path where kyoo can write large amount of data, this is used as a cache by the transcoder.
 # It will automatically be cleaned up on kyoo's startup/shutdown/runtime.
 CACHE_ROOT=/tmp/kyoo_cache
+# Where to store downloaded images of the shows
+IMAGES_PATH="./images";
 # A pattern (regex) to ignore files.
 LIBRARY_IGNORE_PATTERN=".*/[dD]ownloads?/.*"
 
diff --git a/api/src/controllers/seed/images.ts b/api/src/controllers/seed/images.ts
index 7eaefcc4..f80b0d53 100644
--- a/api/src/controllers/seed/images.ts
+++ b/api/src/controllers/seed/images.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { mqueue } from "~/db/schema/mqueue";
 import type { Image } from "~/models/utils";
 import { getFile } from "~/utils";
 
-export const imageDir = process.env.IMAGES_PATH ?? "./images";
+export const imageDir = process.env.IMAGES_PATH ?? "/images";
 export const defaultBlurhash = "000000";
 
 type ImageTask = {