Stretching across South Africa's North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, the Bushveld Complex contains the largest known platinum reserves on Earth, supplying the majority of the world's platinum. Beneath this mineral-rich landscape lies an industry that has shaped communities, transformed environments and profoundly influenced South Africa's social and economic history.

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Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, this long-term project examines the human, environmental and political consequences of platinum mining across the country's Platinum Belt. Travelling more than 50,000 kilometres over several years, I documented the towns, settlements and landscapes that have grown around one of the world's most valuable mineral deposits.

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The work explores the lasting effects of mining on people and place: environmental degradation, labour exploitation, public health challenges and widening inequality. It also reflects on the legacy of the Marikana massacre, a defining moment that exposed the tensions between labour, corporate power and the state, bringing international attention to South Africa's platinum industry.

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These photographs seek to reveal the complex relationship between resource extraction and those who bear its greatest costs. They ask what remains when the wealth beneath the ground is measured against the lives and landscapes forever altered by its pursuit.