diff --git a/CHANGES/900.feature b/CHANGES/900.feature
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c8fde02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/900.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Introduce a sentinel value to `_do_query()` and its friend methods to allow configuring per-request infinite timeouts instead of always falling back to the session-level default timeout when setting the timeout argument to `None`, and add the timeout arguments to image-related API wrappers
diff --git a/aiodocker/docker.py b/aiodocker/docker.py
index d69968ae..687f2568 100644
--- a/aiodocker/docker.py
+++ b/aiodocker/docker.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 from .swarm import DockerSwarm
 from .system import DockerSystem
 from .tasks import DockerTasks
+from .types import SENTINEL, Sentinel
 from .utils import httpize, parse_result
 from .volumes import DockerVolume, DockerVolumes
 
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ async def _query(
         params: Optional[JSONObject] = None,
         data: Optional[Any] = None,
         headers=None,
-        timeout=None,
+        timeout: Union[float, aiohttp.ClientTimeout, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
         chunked=None,
         read_until_eof: bool = True,
         versioned_api: bool = True,
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ async def _do_query(
         params: Optional[JSONObject],
         data: Any,
         headers,
-        timeout,
+        timeout: Union[float, aiohttp.ClientTimeout, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
         chunked,
         read_until_eof: bool,
         versioned_api: bool,
@@ -260,8 +261,11 @@ async def _do_query(
             headers = CIMultiDict(headers)
             if "Content-Type" not in headers:
                 headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
-        if timeout is None:
+        if timeout is SENTINEL:
             timeout = self.session.timeout
+        assert not isinstance(timeout, Sentinel)
+        if not isinstance(timeout, aiohttp.ClientTimeout):
+            timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(timeout)
         try:
             real_params = httpize(params)
             response = await self.session.request(
@@ -304,7 +308,7 @@ async def _query_json(
         params: Optional[JSONObject] = None,
         data: Optional[Any] = None,
         headers=None,
-        timeout=None,
+        timeout: Union[float, aiohttp.ClientTimeout, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
         read_until_eof: bool = True,
         versioned_api: bool = True,
     ) -> Any:
@@ -337,7 +341,7 @@ def _query_chunked_post(
         params: Optional[JSONObject] = None,
         data: Optional[Any] = None,
         headers=None,
-        timeout=None,
+        timeout: Union[float, aiohttp.ClientTimeout, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
         read_until_eof: bool = True,
         versioned_api: bool = True,
     ) -> AbstractAsyncContextManager[aiohttp.ClientResponse]:
diff --git a/aiodocker/images.py b/aiodocker/images.py
index 488ecc8c..d62a7127 100644
--- a/aiodocker/images.py
+++ b/aiodocker/images.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 )
 
 from .jsonstream import json_stream_list, json_stream_stream
-from .types import JSONObject, SupportsRead
+from .types import SENTINEL, JSONObject, Sentinel, SupportsRead
 from .utils import clean_map, compose_auth_header
 
 
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ async def pull(
         repo: Optional[str] = None,
         platform: Optional[str] = None,
         stream: Literal[False] = False,
+        timeout: Union[float, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
     ) -> Dict[str, Any]: ...
 
     @overload
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ def pull(
         repo: Optional[str] = None,
         platform: Optional[str] = None,
         stream: Literal[True],
+        timeout: Union[float, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
     ) -> AsyncIterator[Dict[str, Any]]: ...
 
     def pull(
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ def pull(
         repo: Optional[str] = None,
         platform: Optional[str] = None,
         stream: bool = False,
+        timeout: Union[float, Sentinel, None] = SENTINEL,
     ) -> Any:
         """
         Similar to `docker pull`, pull an image locally
@@ -122,7 +125,13 @@ def pull(
                 )
             # TODO: assert registry == repo?
             headers["X-Registry-Auth"] = compose_auth_header(auth, registry)
-        cm = self.docker._query("images/create", "POST", params=params, headers=headers)
+        cm = self.docker._query(
+            "images/create",
+            "POST",
+            params=params,
+            headers=headers,
+            timeout=timeout,
+        )
         return self._handle_response(cm, stream)
 
     def _handle_response(self, cm, stream):
diff --git a/aiodocker/types.py b/aiodocker/types.py
index 72c55656..560fc721 100644
--- a/aiodocker/types.py
+++ b/aiodocker/types.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import enum
 import sys
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
@@ -45,3 +46,10 @@ def read(self, length: int = ..., /) -> _T_co: ...
 class PortInfo(TypedDict):
     HostIp: str
     HostPort: str
+
+
+class Sentinel(enum.Enum):
+    TOKEN = enum.auto()
+
+
+SENTINEL = Sentinel.TOKEN