diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 5d78d03e..20fa20e2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,6 +7,3 @@
 [submodule "extlib/skeleton"]
 	path = extlib/skeleton
 	url = git://github.com/dhg/Skeleton.git
-[submodule "extlib/exif"]
-	path = extlib/exif
-	url = https://github.com/ianare/exif-py.git
diff --git a/extlib/exif b/extlib/exif
deleted file mode 160000
index 6ff9ed14..00000000
--- a/extlib/exif
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 6ff9ed1410e72e1da19257b93976fa88fe4248bd
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d1a37a1a..b55a1c40 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ try:
         'pytz',
         'oauthlib==0.5.0',
         'unidecode',
+        'ExifRead',
 
         # PLEASE change this when we can; a dependency is forcing us to set this
         # specific number and it is breaking setup.py develop