diff --git a/iiif/routers/iiif.py b/iiif/routers/iiif.py
index 0669cb1..7601cf4 100644
--- a/iiif/routers/iiif.py
+++ b/iiif/routers/iiif.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from fastapi import APIRouter
-from fastapi.responses import ORJSONResponse
-from starlette.responses import FileResponse
+from starlette.responses import FileResponse, JSONResponse
 
 from iiif.ops import IIIF_LEVEL, parse_params
 from iiif.processing import Task
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@
 
 
 @router.get('/{identifier}/info.json')
-async def get_image_info(identifier: str) -> ORJSONResponse:
+async def get_image_info(identifier: str) -> JSONResponse:
     """
     IIIF image info endpoint compliant with the specification:
     https://iiif.io/api/image/3.0/#22-image-information-request-uri-syntax.
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ async def get_image_info(identifier: str) -> ORJSONResponse:
         'cache-control': f'max-age={profile.cache_for}',
         'link': f'<http://iiif.io/api/image/3/level{IIIF_LEVEL}.json>;rel="profile"'
     }
-    return ORJSONResponse(content=info_json, headers=headers)
+    return JSONResponse(content=info_json, headers=headers)
 
 
 @router.get('/{identifier}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{fmt}')
diff --git a/iiif/web.py b/iiif/web.py
index f2bb09c..9631d59 100644
--- a/iiif/web.py
+++ b/iiif/web.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from PIL import Image
 from fastapi import FastAPI
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
-from fastapi.responses import ORJSONResponse
+from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
 
 from iiif.routers import iiif, originals, simple
 from iiif.state import state
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ async def on_shutdown():
 
 
 @app.get('/status')
-async def status(full: bool = False) -> ORJSONResponse:
+async def status(full: bool = False) -> JSONResponse:
     """
     Returns the status of the server along with some stats about current resource usages.
     \f
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ async def status(full: bool = False) -> ORJSONResponse:
             for profile in state.profiles.values()
         }
     }
-    return ORJSONResponse(body, headers={'cache-control': 'no-store'})
+    return JSONResponse(body, headers={'cache-control': 'no-store'})
 
 
 # order matters here btw!
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bbc7449..c2c8228 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
     'fastapi~=0.63.0',
     'humanize~=3.4.1',
     f'jpegtran-cffi @ {jpegtran_url}',
-    'orjson~=3.5.2',
     'pillow~=8.2.0',
     'pyyaml~=5.4.1',
     'uvicorn[standard]~=0.13.4',