diff --git a/docs/api/python/image/image.md b/docs/api/python/image/image.md
index 11fff4f43406..d5adaea54731 100644
--- a/docs/api/python/image/image.md
+++ b/docs/api/python/image/image.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ images provided in
 .. autosummary::
     :nosignatures:
 
+    image.imread
     image.imdecode
     image.scale_down
     image.resize_short
@@ -163,6 +164,7 @@ and a list of augmenters specific for `Object detection` is provided
 .. autoclass:: mxnet.image.ImageIter
     :members:
 
+.. automethod:: mxnet.image.imread
 .. automethod:: mxnet.image.imdecode
 .. automethod:: mxnet.image.scale_down
 .. automethod:: mxnet.image.resize_short