diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ph/photoprism/backend.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ph/photoprism/backend.nix
index 32abb4cf2f46..41e70e73a102 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ph/photoprism/backend.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ph/photoprism/backend.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   lib,
   buildGoModule,
   coreutils,
-  python3,
+  python313,
   src,
   version,
   pkg-config,
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 }:
 
 let
+  # tensorflow does not yet support python314: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/102890
+  python3 = python313;
+
   # we need to copy these, to add the symlinks, so the linker actually finds these libraries
   libtensorflow = symlinkJoin {
     name = "libtensorflow";