diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8398e05..881844c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tower-http",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
+ "walkdir",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1366,6 +1367,15 @@ version = "1.0.20"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "28d3b2b1366ec20994f1fd18c3c594f05c5dd4bc44d8bb0c1c632c8d6829481f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "same-file"
+version = "1.0.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "93fc1dc3aaa9bfed95e02e6eadabb4baf7e3078b0bd1b4d7b6b0b68378900502"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "scopeguard"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -1817,6 +1827,16 @@ version = "0.9.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0b928f33d975fc6ad9f86c8f283853ad26bdd5b10b7f1542aa2fa15e2289105a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "walkdir"
+version = "2.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "29790946404f91d9c5d06f9874efddea1dc06c5efe94541a7d6863108e3a5e4b"
+dependencies = [
+ "same-file",
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "want"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -1924,6 +1944,15 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-util"
+version = "0.1.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c2a7b1c03c876122aa43f3020e6c3c3ee5c05081c9a00739faf7503aeba10d22"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
 version = "0.4.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6577625..f0f0797 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ tokio = { version = "1.25.0", features = ["full"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.3.5", features = ["fs", "trace", "compression-br"] }
 tracing = "0.1.37"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.16", features = ["env-filter"] }
+walkdir = "2.5.0"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index ffcadee..b6bffb4 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use tokio::{task, sync::Semaphore};
 use tower_http::{trace::{self, TraceLayer}, compression::CompressionLayer};
 use tracing::Level;
 use tracing_subscriber::{EnvFilter, layer::SubscriberExt, util::SubscriberInitExt};
+use walkdir::WalkDir;
 
 mod config;
 mod error;
@@ -185,23 +186,24 @@ async fn update_config_and_image_list_cache_job(
         };
 
         // Read all image files from the image_dir
-        let images: HashSet<_> = match image_dir.read_dir() {
-            Ok(images) => {
-                // flatten ignores io error while traversing the iterator
-                images.flatten().filter_map(|entry| {
-                    let path = entry.path();
-                    if path.extension().unwrap_or_default().to_ascii_lowercase() == "jpg" {
-                        Some(path)
-                    } else {
+        let images: HashSet<_> = WalkDir::new(&image_dir)
+            .into_iter()
+            .filter_map(|entry| {
+                match entry {
+                    Ok(entry) => {
+                        let path = entry.path();
+                        if path.extension().unwrap_or_default().eq_ignore_ascii_case("jpg") {
+                            Some(path.to_path_buf())
+                        } else {
+                            None
+                        }
+                    },
+                    Err(error) => {
+                        tracing::error!("Could not read image dir: {:#}", error);
                         None
                     }
-                }).collect()
-            },
-            Err(error) => {
-                tracing::error!("Could not read images: {:#}", error);
-                continue
-            },
-        };
+                }
+            }).collect();
 
         let update_image_metadata = if image_dir_change != last_image_dir_change {
             tracing::debug!("Update image list because image dir was modified");
@@ -221,8 +223,9 @@ async fn update_config_and_image_list_cache_job(
         // Update image list
         if update_image_metadata {
             let images = images.clone();
+            let image_dir = image_dir.clone();
             let image_metadata = task::spawn_blocking(move || {
-                read_image_metadata(&images)
+                read_image_metadata(&image_dir, &images)
             }).await.unwrap_or_else(|error| {
                 tracing::error!("Could not read images due to panic: {:#}", error);
                 Vec::new()
@@ -349,7 +352,7 @@ async fn converted_image(
 
     image_path.exists()
         .then_some(())
-        .ok_or(anyhow!("Requested image not found!"))
+        .ok_or(anyhow!("Requested image {} not found!", image_path.display()))
         .context(StatusCode::NOT_FOUND)?;
 
     // Check if we have the file already in cache
@@ -465,11 +468,11 @@ fn fix_image_orientation(image: DynamicImage, exif: &Exif) -> DynamicImage {
     }
 }
 
-fn read_image_metadata(images: &HashSet<PathBuf>) -> Vec<ImageInfo> {
+fn read_image_metadata(image_dir: &Path, images: &HashSet<PathBuf>) -> Vec<ImageInfo> {
     let mut files = vec![];
 
     for path in images {
-        let image_info = match read_image_info(path) {
+        let image_info = match read_image_info(image_dir, path) {
             Ok(image_info) => image_info,
             Err(error) => {
                 tracing::warn!("Skipping {:?} due to error: {:#}", path, error);
@@ -491,7 +494,7 @@ fn extract_exif_string(field: &exif::Field) -> Option<String> {
     }
 }
 
-fn read_image_info(path: &Path) -> Result<ImageInfo> {
+fn read_image_info(image_dir: &Path, path: &Path) -> Result<ImageInfo> {
     let file = File::open(path)?;
     let mut file = BufReader::new(file);
 
@@ -534,7 +537,7 @@ fn read_image_info(path: &Path) -> Result<ImageInfo> {
         width,
         height,
         created: datetime.unwrap_or_default(),
-        name: path.file_name().expect("invalid file path").to_owned(),
+        name: path.strip_prefix(image_dir).expect("invalid path prefix").into(),
         ..Default::default()
     })
 }