Problem on adressing nested relative directories in server

I want to run some image processing code on a Linux server.

The code is located in

/q/w/e/r/t

The images are located in

/abc/d/e/f/g # the images are in the g folder

This is the code I'm using:

path = "/abc/d/e/f"

new_path = os.path.join(path, 'g', '001.png')

img1= cv2.imread(new_path)

However, this is the error I'm getting:

[ WARN:0@"a number"] global /io/opencv/modules/imgcodecs/src/loadsave.cpp (239) findDecoder imread_('/abc/d/e/f/g/001.png'): can't open/read file: check file path/integrity

How can I solve the problem?

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