diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0353407a..80819b13 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ extra_opts = {
         "pytest-cov",
         "coverage<5.0",  # recent coverage switched to sqlite format for the .coverage file which isn't handled properly by coveralls
         "blinker",
-        "Pillow>=2.0.0",
+        "Pillow>=7.0.0",
     ],
 }