mkdocs: How to link to the same images in ./README.md and ./docs/INDEX.md at the same time?

Question

I have a README.md file in my project's root folder. The README.md contains links to images like this:

![image.jpeg](docs/media/image.jpeg)

Now, in my docs folder, I have my index.md file referencing my README.md as follows (making use of mkdocs's pymdownx.snippets extension):

--8<-- "README.md"

The issue is that the link to the images is not correct anymore. There doesn't exist a /docs/docs/ folder. As a result, mkdocs isn't able to find the images.

I am wondering how to change the links to, let's say, always start at the root of the project?