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I've been a long time user of both Sxiv and Feh, great image viewers for tiling window managers.
Sxiv has been discontinued, its development is resumed in a fork called Nsxiv, while Feh is actively maintained and packs more features such as wallpaper setting. I've recently found out about Imv[1], it's similar to both of the aforementioned programs, but it works on both X11 and Wayland, while having similar features such as keybinding and supporting animated GIFs, SVGs, RAW formats and proprietary formats such as PSD (use a FOSS alternative if you can). If you switch in between an X11 instance and Wayland, it can be useful to have a program that does the job in both environments.
It can easily be scriptable and combined with something like curl to view images from the web or make slideshows. Personally it fits into my usage of dwm, I recommend giving Imv a shot.