I can’t believe I hadn’t been aware of Franz Szony’s work until my dear friend Rachel pointed him out recently.

Szony’s creations fall somewhere between photography and painting, in a fantastical realm that is both soft and undeniably edgy.

His subjects possess a surreal, impossibly polished beauty (rather like a kind of ultra-modern Baroque), glowing and glistening in their alternate realities which defy the laws of time and space.

Each image may have familiar elements, but takes on a kind of dreamlike, mythic, archetypal feeling. All are positively gorgeous.

Enter the realm of imagination: Franz Szony