diff --git a/app/[lang]/page.tsx b/app/[lang]/page.tsx
index efb4f4b..7ea1bd1 100644
--- a/app/[lang]/page.tsx
+++ b/app/[lang]/page.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ async function getInstagramData() {
         username: 'moy_akyaka',
         maxId: ''
       }),
-      next: { revalidate: 86400 } // 24 hours
+      next: { revalidate: 3600 } // 1 hour to prevent CDN link expiration
     });
 
     if (!res.ok) {
diff --git a/app/api/instagram-proxy/route.ts b/app/api/instagram-proxy/route.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f36a814
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/api/instagram-proxy/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+
+export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
+  const url = request.nextUrl.searchParams.get('url');
+  
+  if (!url) {
+    return new NextResponse('Missing url parameter', { status: 400 });
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch(url, {
+      headers: {
+        // Use a generic user agent
+        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+      }
+    });
+    
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      console.error('Failed to proxy instagram image:', res.status, res.statusText);
+      return new NextResponse('Failed to fetch image', { status: res.status });
+    }
+
+    const buffer = await res.arrayBuffer();
+    
+    const headers = new Headers();
+    headers.set('Content-Type', res.headers.get('Content-Type') || 'image/jpeg');
+    headers.set('Cache-Control', 'public, max-age=86400, s-maxage=86400');
+
+    return new NextResponse(buffer, { headers });
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error('Error in instagram proxy:', error);
+    return new NextResponse('Error fetching image', { status: 500 });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/components/InstagramFeed.tsx b/components/InstagramFeed.tsx
index 9d385a7..91cb66f 100644
--- a/components/InstagramFeed.tsx
+++ b/components/InstagramFeed.tsx
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export default function InstagramFeed({ dict, posts = [] }: { dict: any, posts?:
 
               <div className="relative aspect-[4/5] w-full overflow-hidden bg-sand-dark/10">
                 <img 
-                  src={post.imageUrl || ''} 
+                  src={post.imageUrl ? `/api/instagram-proxy?url=${encodeURIComponent(post.imageUrl)}` : ''} 
                   alt={post.caption ? post.caption.substring(0, 50) : 'Instagram Post'} 
                   className="w-full h-full object-cover group-hover:scale-105 transition-transform duration-700" 
                 />