Money is dust when you can make a ball from rags tied together with string; when you can draw Adidas stripes on your feet to emulate your favourite footballer; when you can make goal posts from branches and when your football pitch is an open plain in Africa.This photographic documentation on football seeks to show the inherent purity of the beautiful game by capturing, at grassroots level, Africa’s relationship with this most popular of sports. Goode has realised that the beauty and purity of the game can be found, far from the money and celebrity it sometimes brings to mind, in the children of the poorest places on earth. Muti, both a social documentary and photographic journey, highlights not only Africa’s passion for football, but also the maladies that beset the continent, and football’s potential role as a balm for those maladies.The Muti project aims at raising money to supply children’s charities with much-needed medicine.
