diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 2a085bb..6bcf150 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ repos:
         pyyaml,
         requests,
         rich,
+        pillow,
+        base64,
+        io,
         transformers,
 
         # dev dependencies
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6ab2c6e..b83abfd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ dependencies = [
     "pyyaml>=6.0.0",
     "requests",
     "rich",
+    "pillow",
+    "base64",
+    "io",
     "transformers",
 ]
 
diff --git a/src/guidellm/__init__.py b/src/guidellm/__init__.py
index e562018..b10b445 100644
--- a/src/guidellm/__init__.py
+++ b/src/guidellm/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # flake8: noqa
 
 import os
+
 import transformers  # type: ignore
 
 os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false"  # Silence warnings for tokenizers
diff --git a/src/guidellm/backend/openai.py b/src/guidellm/backend/openai.py
index 8c83f91..90d2791 100644
--- a/src/guidellm/backend/openai.py
+++ b/src/guidellm/backend/openai.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import base64
+import io
 from typing import AsyncGenerator, Dict, List, Optional
 
 from loguru import logger
@@ -103,11 +105,11 @@ async def make_request(
 
         request_args.update(self._request_args)
 
+        messages = self._build_messages(request)
+
         stream = await self._async_client.chat.completions.create(
             model=self.model,
-            messages=[
-                {"role": "user", "content": request.prompt},
-            ],
+            messages=messages,
             stream=True,
             **request_args,
         )
@@ -167,3 +169,21 @@ def validate_connection(self):
         except Exception as error:
             logger.error("Failed to validate OpenAI connection: {}", error)
             raise error
+
+    def _build_messages(self, request: TextGenerationRequest) -> Dict:
+        if request.number_images == 0:
+            messages = [{"role": "user", "content": request.prompt}]
+        else:
+            content = []
+            for image in request.images:
+                stream = io.BytesIO()
+                im_format = image.image.format or "PNG"
+                image.image.save(stream, format=im_format)
+                im_b64 = base64.b64encode(stream.getvalue()).decode("utf-8")
+                image_url = {"url": f"data:image/{im_format.lower()};base64,{im_b64}"}
+                content.append({"type": "image_url", "image_url": image_url})
+
+            content.append({"type": "text", "text": request.prompt})
+            messages = [{"role": "user", "content": content}]
+
+        return messages
diff --git a/src/guidellm/config.py b/src/guidellm/config.py
index c3d950e..df750ea 100644
--- a/src/guidellm/config.py
+++ b/src/guidellm/config.py
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ class EmulatedDataSettings(BaseModel):
             "force_new_line_punctuation": True,
         }
     )
+    image_source: List[str] = "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html"
 
 
 class OpenAISettings(BaseModel):
diff --git a/src/guidellm/core/request.py b/src/guidellm/core/request.py
index 4f7315c..a1ff199 100644
--- a/src/guidellm/core/request.py
+++ b/src/guidellm/core/request.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import uuid
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
 from pydantic import Field
 
 from guidellm.core.serializable import Serializable
+from guidellm.utils import ImageDescriptor
 
 
 class TextGenerationRequest(Serializable):
@@ -16,6 +17,10 @@ class TextGenerationRequest(Serializable):
         description="The unique identifier for the request.",
     )
     prompt: str = Field(description="The input prompt for the text generation.")
+    images: Optional[List[ImageDescriptor]] = Field(
+        default=None,
+        description="Input images.",
+    )
     prompt_token_count: Optional[int] = Field(
         default=None,
         description="The number of tokens in the input prompt.",
@@ -29,6 +34,13 @@ class TextGenerationRequest(Serializable):
         description="The parameters for the text generation request.",
     )
 
+    @property
+    def number_images(self) -> int:
+        if self.images is None:
+            return 0
+        else:
+            return len(self.images)
+
     def __str__(self) -> str:
         prompt_short = (
             self.prompt[:32] + "..."
@@ -41,4 +53,5 @@ def __str__(self) -> str:
             f"prompt={prompt_short}, prompt_token_count={self.prompt_token_count}, "
             f"output_token_count={self.output_token_count}, "
             f"params={self.params})"
+            f"images={self.number_images}"
         )
diff --git a/src/guidellm/request/emulated.py b/src/guidellm/request/emulated.py
index 7d481cb..f15387e 100644
--- a/src/guidellm/request/emulated.py
+++ b/src/guidellm/request/emulated.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from guidellm.config import settings
 from guidellm.core.request import TextGenerationRequest
 from guidellm.request.base import GenerationMode, RequestGenerator
-from guidellm.utils import clean_text, filter_text, load_text, split_text
+from guidellm.utils import clean_text, filter_text, load_images, load_text, split_text
 
 __all__ = ["EmulatedConfig", "EmulatedRequestGenerator", "EndlessTokens"]
 
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class EmulatedConfig:
         generated_tokens_variance (Optional[int]): Variance for generated tokens.
         generated_tokens_min (Optional[int]): Minimum number of generated tokens.
         generated_tokens_max (Optional[int]): Maximum number of generated tokens.
+        images (Optional[int]): Number of input images.
     """
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ def create_config(config: Optional[Union[str, Path, Dict]]) -> "EmulatedConfig":
         """
         if not config:
             logger.debug("Creating default configuration")
-            return EmulatedConfig(prompt_tokens=1024, generated_tokens=256)
+            return EmulatedConfig(prompt_tokens=1024, generated_tokens=256, images=0)
 
         if isinstance(config, dict):
             logger.debug("Loading configuration from dict: {}", config)
@@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ def create_config(config: Optional[Union[str, Path, Dict]]) -> "EmulatedConfig":
     generated_tokens_min: Optional[int] = None
     generated_tokens_max: Optional[int] = None
 
+    images: int = 0
+
     @property
     def prompt_tokens_range(self) -> Tuple[int, int]:
         """
@@ -327,6 +330,8 @@ def __init__(
             settings.emulated_data.filter_start,
             settings.emulated_data.filter_end,
         )
+        if self._config.images > 0:
+            self._images = load_images(settings.emulated_data.image_source)
         self._rng = np.random.default_rng(random_seed)
 
         # NOTE: Must be after all the parameters since the queue population
@@ -355,6 +360,7 @@ def create_item(self) -> TextGenerationRequest:
         logger.debug("Creating new text generation request")
         target_prompt_token_count = self._config.sample_prompt_tokens(self._rng)
         prompt = self.sample_prompt(target_prompt_token_count)
+        images = self.sample_images()
         prompt_token_count = len(self.tokenizer.tokenize(prompt))
         output_token_count = self._config.sample_output_tokens(self._rng)
         logger.debug("Generated prompt: {}", prompt)
@@ -363,6 +369,7 @@ def create_item(self) -> TextGenerationRequest:
             prompt=prompt,
             prompt_token_count=prompt_token_count,
             output_token_count=output_token_count,
+            images=images,
         )
 
     def sample_prompt(self, tokens: int) -> str:
@@ -395,3 +402,11 @@ def sample_prompt(self, tokens: int) -> str:
                 right = mid
 
         return self._tokens.create_text(start_line_index, left)
+
+
+    def sample_images(self):
+        image_indices = self._rng.choice(
+            len(self._images), size=self._config.images, replace=False,
+        )
+
+        return [self._images[i] for i in image_indices]
diff --git a/src/guidellm/utils/__init__.py b/src/guidellm/utils/__init__.py
index 2fdd8ca..eb4931b 100644
--- a/src/guidellm/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/src/guidellm/utils/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from .images import ImageDescriptor, load_images
 from .injector import create_report, inject_data
 from .progress import BenchmarkReportProgress
 from .text import (
@@ -37,4 +38,6 @@
     "resolve_transformers_dataset_split",
     "split_lines_by_punctuation",
     "split_text",
+    "ImageDescriptor",
+    "load_images",
 ]
diff --git a/src/guidellm/utils/images.py b/src/guidellm/utils/images.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d73bc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/guidellm/utils/images.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+from io import BytesIO
+from typing import List, Optional
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from loguru import logger
+from PIL import Image
+from pydantic import ConfigDict, Field
+
+from guidellm.config import settings
+from guidellm.core.serializable import Serializable
+
+__all__ = ["load_images", "ImageDescriptor"]
+
+class ImageDescriptor(Serializable):
+    """
+    A class to represent image data in serializable format.
+    """
+    model_config = ConfigDict(arbitrary_types_allowed=True)
+
+    url: Optional[str] = Field(description="url address for image.")
+    image: Image.Image = Field(description="PIL image", exclude=True)
+    filename: Optional[int] = Field(
+        default=None,
+        description="Image filename.",
+    )
+
+
+def load_images(data: str) -> List[ImageDescriptor]:
+    """
+    Load an HTML file from a path or URL
+
+    :param data: the path or URL to load the HTML file from
+    :type data: Union[str, Path]
+    :return: Descriptor containing image url and the data in PIL.Image.Image format
+    :rtype: ImageDescriptor
+    """
+
+    images = []
+    if not data:
+        return None
+    if isinstance(data, str) and data.startswith("http"):
+        response = requests.get(data, timeout=settings.request_timeout)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
+        for img_tag in soup.find_all("img"):
+            img_url = img_tag.get("src")
+
+            if img_url:
+                # Handle relative URLs
+                img_url = urljoin(data, img_url)
+
+                # Download the image
+                logger.debug("Loading image: {}", img_url)
+                img_response = requests.get(img_url)
+                img_response.raise_for_status()
+
+                # Load image into Pillow
+                images.append(
+                    ImageDescriptor(
+                        url=img_url,
+                        image=Image.open(BytesIO(img_response.content)),
+                    )
+                )
+
+        return images