
Bizarroland
- Publisher
- 89books
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 979-12-82350-19-8
- Specifications
- Softcover
32 x 22.5 cm
212 pages
221 color photographs
Digital print
Text by Steven Edson
Design by Molly Scannell
Bizarroland is where the strange and the ordinary coexist—where a cracked porcelain doll might sit beside a box of rusted wrenches, and a taxidermy deer shares a shelf with a stack of 90s VHS tapes. Here, everything is for sale, everything has a price. Objects pass from hand to hand, recycled endlessly, waiting for someone to see their worth once again.
I travel to flea markets to explore, to wander, and to photograph. Each visit is unpredictable. Across the sprawl of booths and tarps and folding tables, I search for fragments of lives once lived, now arranged for resale. Some items are carefully displayed, curated with a sense of nostalgia or pride. Others lie in disarray, mixed in chaotic piles of forgotten value.
This book is not just about what’s for sale. It’s about what we leave behind. The objects we surround ourselves with. The things we treasure, discard, or rediscover. In the flea market’s endless churn, you can glimpse the shape of a society—not in its headlines or monuments, but in its junk drawers, attic boxes, and half—broken dreams.
Welcome to Bizarroland.