GRÆSSULT
The book GRÆSSULT (Grasshunger) was released 24th October 2025 by Baggaardsbaroner. Written by Jonas Villumsen.
This project has led Anders through stadiums of greater Copenhagen for more than two years. Photographing the lower league football culture and passionate driven spaces. Locations that servers as local anchor points, for both spectators and club volunteers. In a search for the original. The unspoiled and the true landscape in the lower divisions of football. Eager to document what is, a lust to describe the current status of what some points as the true game. All images are shot analog on mediumformat. This creates a timelessness that reinforce the story of these unique environments.
In a series of electronic postcards to a god he doesn't believe in, a man reaches out to grab something to hold. God's hand, his own. Grass Hunger is a microcosm of coffee cup rituals, divorce, fictional football reports, the life and death of houseplants, life and death in general, and the community of the stands. It is thus both a football book and not a football book.
It is also a photo book and not a photo book. Magnificent images by photographer Anders Hviid stand like a row of beautifully concrete pins in the map of Copenhagen and the surrounding area. It is a book that insists, with violence and power and pomp and splendor, on planting a flag at the intersection between football and sensitivity.
Both when it looks outward and when it looks inward. It is an interplay between observing the vibrant surroundings of a division stadium and taking a semi-arduous hike through oneself. An interplay between describing the small church communities in the stands and shadow boxing with God or oneself as an opponent.
