The images in Wahala depict both the places in the world where raw materials are extracted from the earth for profit, and the people who make their homes there. Photographer Robin Hinsch travelled to where the human impact on the planet was particularly visible to confront the viewer with the blunt ecological and human repercussions of the global reliance on fossil fuels. The photographs in the book were made in the oil fields of the Niger Delta, Nigeria; the coal belt of Jharkhand, India; and the open-cast mines of Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany and Silesia in Poland. They shift between details and overviews, landscapes and portraits, the familiar and the foreign, disorientating the viewer as to what and where they are looking at. The images are cinematic—dark and brooding skies, dramatic landscapes lit by gas flares, collapsing ruins of buildings. The Yoruba word 'wahala' means 'problem' or 'stress' and is a widely understood pidgin term in Nigeria. To make this project, Hinsch collaborated with Pinaki Roy, a teacher and social activist working at the Jharia coalfield in India, where coal seam fires have been burning continuously since 1916.