diff --git a/requirements/doc/doc-requirements.txt b/requirements/doc/doc-requirements.txt
index 5159465b89e3..362399aeac7b 100644
--- a/requirements/doc/doc-requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/doc/doc-requirements.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,5 @@ colorspacious
 ipython
 ipywidgets
 numpydoc>=0.8
-pillow>=3.4,!=5.4.0
 sphinx-gallery>=0.2
 sphinx-copybutton
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4de989563478..06cc5fc22fad 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ def run(self):
             "cycler>=0.10",
             "kiwisolver>=1.0.1",
             "numpy>=1.11",
-            "pillow",
+            "pillow>=6.2.0",
             "pyparsing>=2.0.1,!=2.0.4,!=2.1.2,!=2.1.6",
             "python-dateutil>=2.1",
         ],