diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/components.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/components.js
index 0c213884..21c6421e 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/components.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/MarkdownControl/VisualEditor/components.js
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ export const NODE_COMPONENTS = {
   'numbered-list': props =>
     <ol {...props.attributes} start={props.node.data.get('start') || 1}>{props.children}</ol>,
   'link': props => {
-    // Need to wrap this in mark components for any marks found in data.
     const data = props.node.get('data');
     const marks = data.get('marks');
     const url = data.get('url');
@@ -47,6 +46,19 @@ export const NODE_COMPONENTS = {
     }, link);
     return result;
   },
+  'image': props => {
+    const data = props.node.get('data');
+    const marks = data.get('marks');
+    const url = data.get('url');
+    const title = data.get('title');
+    const alt = data.get('alt');
+    const image = <img src={url} title={title} alt={alt} {...props.attributes}/>;
+    const result = !marks ? image : marks.reduce((acc, mark) => {
+      const MarkComponent = MARK_COMPONENTS[mark.type];
+      return <MarkComponent>{acc}</MarkComponent>;
+    }, image);
+    return result;
+  },
   'shortcode': props => {
     const { attributes, node, state: editorState } = props;
     const isSelected = editorState.selection.hasFocusIn(node);
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/__tests__/slate.spec.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/__tests__/slate.spec.js
index ae8383e7..768220e8 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/__tests__/slate.spec.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/__tests__/slate.spec.js
@@ -28,4 +28,8 @@ describe('slate', () => {
     expect(process('**a**b**c**')).toEqual('**a**b**c**\n');
     expect(process('**a _b_ c**')).toEqual('**a _b_ c**\n');
   });
+
+  it('should parse inline images as images', () => {
+    expect(process('a ![b](c)')).toEqual('a ![b](c)\n');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkImagesToText.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkImagesToText.js
index f63d3820..568e8a06 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkImagesToText.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkImagesToText.js
@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
 /**
  * Images must be parsed as shortcodes for asset proxying. This plugin converts
- * MDAST image nodes back to text to allow shortcode pattern matching.
+ * MDAST image nodes back to text to allow shortcode pattern matching. Note that
+ * this transformation only occurs for images that are the sole child of a top
+ * level paragraph - any other image is left alone and treated as an inline
+ * image.
  */
 export default function remarkImagesToText() {
   return transform;
 
   function transform(node) {
-    const children = node.children ? node.children.map(transform) : node.children;
-    if (node.type === 'image') {
-      const alt = node.alt || '';
-      const url = node.url || '';
-      const title = node.title ? ` "${node.title}"` : '';
-      return { type: 'text', value: `![${alt}](${url}${title})` };
-    }
+    const children = node.children.map(child => {
+      if (
+        child.type === 'paragraph'
+        && child.children.length === 1
+        && child.children[0].type === 'image'
+      ) {
+        const { alt = '', url = '', title = '' } = child.children[0];
+        const value = `![${alt}](${url}${title ? ' title' : ''})`;
+        child.children = [{ type: 'text', value }];
+      }
+      return child;
+    });
     return { ...node, children };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js
index 00c6942e..ef28f570 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/remarkSlate.js
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ function createBlock(type, nodes, props = {}) {
 /**
  * Create a Slate Block node.
  */
-function createInline(type, nodes, props = {}) {
+function createInline(type, props = {}, nodes) {
   return { kind: 'inline', type, nodes, ...props };
 }
 
@@ -312,9 +312,23 @@ function convertNode(node, nodes) {
     case 'link': {
       const { title, url, data } = node;
       const newData = { ...data, title, url };
-      return createInline(typeMap[type], nodes, { data: newData });
+      return createInline(typeMap[type], { data: newData }, nodes);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Images
+     *
+     * Identical to link nodes except for the lack of child nodes and addition
+     * of alt attribute data MDAST stores the link attributes directly on the
+     * node, while our Slate schema references them in the data object.
+     */
+    case 'image': {
+      const { title, url, alt, data } = node;
+      const newData = { ...data, title, alt, url };
+      return createInline(typeMap[type], { isVoid: true, data: newData });
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Tables
      *
diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js
index aca2d42c..522a9b7a 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/slateRemark.js
@@ -474,6 +474,21 @@ function convertNode(node, children, shortcodePlugins) {
       return u(typeMap[node.type], { url, title, data }, children);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Images
+     *
+     * This transformation is almost identical to that of links, except for the
+     * lack of child nodes and addition of `alt` attribute data. Currently the
+     * CMS handles block images by shortcode, so this case will only apply to
+     * inline images, which currently can only occur through raw markdown
+     * insertion.
+     */
+    case 'image': {
+      const { url, title, alt, ...data } = get(node, 'data', {});
+      return u(typeMap[node.type], { url, title, alt, data });
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * No default case is supplied because an unhandled case should never
      * occur. In the event that it does, let the error throw (for now).