diff --git a/desktop_photo_search/fluent_ui/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart b/desktop_photo_search/fluent_ui/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart
index 09637a4d6..f2d497119 100644
--- a/desktop_photo_search/fluent_ui/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart
+++ b/desktop_photo_search/fluent_ui/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ class Unsplash {
     }
 
     return SearchPhotosResponse.fromJson(
-      response.body,
+      // Per Response#body, if the Content-Type header is unknown, bodyBytes
+      // is interpreted as latin1. Unsplash returns utf8, but with no encoding
+      // specified in the Content-Type, so we must do it ourselves.
+      utf8.decode(response.bodyBytes),
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/desktop_photo_search/material/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart b/desktop_photo_search/material/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart
index 09637a4d6..f2d497119 100644
--- a/desktop_photo_search/material/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart
+++ b/desktop_photo_search/material/lib/src/unsplash/unsplash.dart
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ class Unsplash {
     }
 
     return SearchPhotosResponse.fromJson(
-      response.body,
+      // Per Response#body, if the Content-Type header is unknown, bodyBytes
+      // is interpreted as latin1. Unsplash returns utf8, but with no encoding
+      // specified in the Content-Type, so we must do it ourselves.
+      utf8.decode(response.bodyBytes),
     );
   }