diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm
index 298bff3450..06fe4cb2aa 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ (define-public vigra
       ("libpng" ,libpng)
       ("libtiff" ,libtiff)
       ("openexr" ,openexr)
-      ("python" ,python)
+      ("python" ,python-wrapper)
       ("python-numpy" ,python-numpy)
       ("zlib" ,zlib)))
    (native-inputs