diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ada5197..238cdf9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ The site also works great when browsing the HTML files locally.
 
 If it is the first time building the site or if you have updated the source SCSS you also need to run `npm install && npm run dev` to build the frontend assets.
 
+#### Adding images
+All media files in the `_media` directory will get copied to the `_site/media` directory upon build.
+To reference an image in your Markdown, use the following syntax
+```markdown
+![Image Alt](../media/image.png "Image Title") # Note the relative path
+```
+Nested media directories are not yet supported.
 
 #### Live preview
 Use ` npm run watch` to watch the files for changes and start up a local dev server on port 3000 using Browsersync.
diff --git a/app/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php b/app/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php
index 8df033e..dc02d8c 100644
--- a/app/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php
+++ b/app/Actions/CreatesDefaultDirectories.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ class CreatesDefaultDirectories
         '_drafts',
         '_pages',
         '_posts',
+        '_media',
         '_site',
         '_docs',
         '_site/posts',
diff --git a/app/Commands/BuildStaticSiteCommand.php b/app/Commands/BuildStaticSiteCommand.php
index 586ee7f..cc41321 100644
--- a/app/Commands/BuildStaticSiteCommand.php
+++ b/app/Commands/BuildStaticSiteCommand.php
@@ -57,7 +57,17 @@ public function handle(): int
             $this->warn('Running with high verbosity');
         }
 
+        $this->line('Transferring Media Assets...');
+        $files = realpath('_media') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ("*.{png,svg,jpg,jpeg,gif,ico}");
+        $this->withProgressBar(glob($files, GLOB_BRACE), function ($filepath) {
+            if ($this->getOutput()->isVeryVerbose()) {
+                $this->line(' > Copying media file ' . basename($filepath) . ' to the output media directory');
+            }
+            copy($filepath, realpath('_site/media') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename($filepath));
+        });
+
         if (Features::hasBlogPosts()) {
+            $this->newLine(2);
             $this->line('Creating Markdown Posts...');
             $this->withProgressBar(CollectionService::getSourceSlugsOfModels(MarkdownPost::class), function ($slug) {
                 $this->debug((new StaticPageBuilder((new MarkdownPostParser($slug))->get(), true))->getDebugOutput());