The book “Hollandse Velden”

The book

The website HollandseVelden.nl is not the official website of the book of the same name by Hans van der Meer and Jan Mulder (Uitgeverij De Verbeelding, 1998).

However, this book is definitely worth reading for the amateur football fan! Webshop Bol.com described the book, when they still had it in stock, as follows:

In 1998 the book 'Hollandse Velden' (Dutch Fields), photos of amateur football in the Netherlands by photographer Hans van der Meer, was published, with a long story by Jan Mulder. The book was an immediate success. The combination of sports photography and landscape photography, and then also with humor, appealed to many people. The demand for the book is as high as ever, and after the English Magnum photographer Martin Parr declared it one of his favorite books, also more and more from abroad. Because the photos from the book will be shown in three museums during the upcoming European Championships in Portugal in June (first in the Centro Portugues de Fotografica in Porto), and then in several countries, starting with the Rencontres d'Arles photo festival, we have made an English edition of the book: 'Dutch Fields'. Jan Mulder's hilarious text has been translated by Simon Kuper, the bilingual author of the book 'Football against the enemy'. In 2000, as a sequel to 'Hollandse Velden', the book 'Keepers', photographed in both the Netherlands and Belgium, was published, containing an exchange of letters between Jan Mulder and ex-goalkeeper Jan Plekker. In 2002, Hans vander Meer published 'Bhutan-Montserrat, The Other Final', the moving visual report of a football match between the two landers in the world who are ranked lowest in the FIFA rankings.

In addition to 'Dutch Fields', Hans van der Meer has also published the book 'European Fields', in which amateur football throughout Europe is portrayed in a fantastic way. For more information about the books or to order them, please refer to the website of Hans van der Meer.