diff --git a/people-and-planet-ai/image-classification/requirements.txt b/people-and-planet-ai/image-classification/requirements.txt
index 3a5c78d3764..97240ef4fa5 100644
--- a/people-and-planet-ai/image-classification/requirements.txt
+++ b/people-and-planet-ai/image-classification/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-pillow==10.3.0
+pillow==12.1.1
 apache-beam[gcp]==2.55.1
 google-cloud-aiplatform==1.47.0