I have been searching all day for this and it seems that there is no solution currently available from the chromedriver implementation for python.
how do you set spe
For anyone who want to disable images in chromedriver, the following code might help you.
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option( "prefs", {'profile.default_content_settings.images': 2})
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)