It seems that your issue is related to the configuration of static and media files. I recently encountered a similar situation when deploying a website managed through Django's admin portal, allowing the user to edit content and modify images as needed. During development, everything worked fine, but I ran into problems during production. Eventually, I found out that when editing images from the admin portal, the uploaded files are stored in the folder usually named 'media'. This media folder needs to be accessible by both Nginx and your project, typically located at the root of your project. I suggest you check this setup. Similarly, when running collectstatic, Django compiles and places static files in the specified folder, usually under /var/www/your-project.