Django Rest Framework ImageField

I think you can use request.data instead after django rest framework 3.0. The usage of request.DATA and request.FILES is now pending deprecation in favor of a single request.data attribute that contains all the parsed data.

You can check it from here

You seem to be missing the request.FILES argument to the serializer constructor in the your post and put handlers.

serializer = PhotoSerializer(data=request.DATA, files=request.FILES)