diff --git a/apps/gallery/serializers.py b/apps/gallery/serializers.py
index 36360180..d8bc995d 100644
--- a/apps/gallery/serializers.py
+++ b/apps/gallery/serializers.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.validators import MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator
 from rest_framework import serializers
 from sorl.thumbnail.parsers import parse_crop
 from sorl.thumbnail.parsers import ThumbnailParseError
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
-
+from django.conf import settings
 from . import models
 
 
@@ -35,6 +34,15 @@ class ImageSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
             'orientation': {'write_only': True}
         }
 
+    def validate(self, attrs):
+        """Overridden validate method."""
+        image = attrs.get('image')
+
+        if image and image.size >= settings.FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE:
+            raise serializers.ValidationError({'detail': _('File size too large: %s bytes') % image.size})
+
+        return attrs
+
 
 class CropImageSerializer(ImageSerializer):
     """Serializers for image crops."""