diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 07efd8d..13a36b5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Fixed
   correctly depending on the selected images.
 * Removed black line under marching ants outline of crop mode, which
   would scale with the image and get potentially very thick.
+* Fixed a crash when importing images with unsupported exif orientation info
 
 
 
diff --git a/beeref/fileio/image.py b/beeref/fileio/image.py
index d68db80..0a82a11 100644
--- a/beeref/fileio/image.py
+++ b/beeref/fileio/image.py
@@ -44,9 +44,13 @@ def exif_rotated_image(path=None):
             logger.exception(f'Exif parser failed on image: {path}')
             return img
 
-    if 'orientation' in exifimg.list_all():
-        orientation = exifimg.orientation
-    else:
+    try:
+        if 'orientation' in exifimg.list_all():
+            orientation = exifimg.orientation
+        else:
+            return img
+    except NotImplementedError:
+        logger.exception(f'Exif failed reading orientation of image: {path}')
         return img
 
     transform = QtGui.QTransform()
diff --git a/tests/fileio/test_image.py b/tests/fileio/test_image.py
index f309217..432a55f 100644
--- a/tests/fileio/test_image.py
+++ b/tests/fileio/test_image.py
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ def test_exif_rotated_image_exif_unpack_error(qapp, imgfilename3x3):
         assert img.isNull() is False
 
 
+def test_exif_rotated_image_exif_notimplementederror(qapp, imgfilename3x3):
+    with patch('beeref.fileio.image.exif.Image.list_all',
+               side_effect=NotImplementedError()):
+        img = exif_rotated_image(imgfilename3x3)
+        assert img.isNull() is False
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('path,expected',
                          [('test3x3.png', 'test3x3.png'),
                           ('test3x3_orientation1.jpg', 'test3x3.jpg'),