TRAVEL & DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Dec 2019

Berlin: Gil Bartz
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  • The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan 2013.

  • Spotlight Awards 2019 - Travel Photography Category Winning Image: A nomadic family in a pickup truck at Khövsgöl Lake in Northern Mongolia.

  • A man is crossing a street in Schanzenviertel while the police is using water cannons against protestors. G 20 Summit 2017 in Hamburg, Germany.

  • A refugee from Syria carrying his little daughter after landing at a beach on Lesbos. Greece 2015.

  • Traditional Mongolian yurts in Desert Gobi. Mongolia 2019.

  • A young man during a party in a small village near Donetsk. Ukraine 2013.

  • A police unit during the G20 Summit in Hamburg July 2017

  • A refugee during clashes with the police near the town of Idomeni near the border of Macedonia. Greece 2016.

  • A young boy with an eyepatch in an illegal settlement in Baku. Azerbaijan 2013.

  • A Beach in Yalta. Crimea, Ukraine 2013.

  • A woman is feeding a new born lamb. Mongolia 2019

  • A traditional German carpenter during a Walz. Germany 2014.

Gil Bartz, born in Northern Germany, is a freelance photographer and cinematographer based in Berlin. After completing his studies in 2002, he started working in the television industry as a camera–assistant. In 2007 he quit his job to become a cinematographer.

He studied Cinematography at the University for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam – Babelsberg, and graduated in 2012. He has been working as a freelance photographer since 2015.

For the last two years, he has been travelling through the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Russia working on personal photo projects.

"This portfolio represents my personal work, it’s about the people I’ve met on my travels by chance. When I started my trip I never thought about what I would like to capture. I just let it happen. Drifting like this, I felt lucky about every coincidence and new experience. When I first started my travels, I shot in black and white film, carrying around countless film rolls. Since then, I have switched to a digital camera taking pictures mainly in colour. The fact that it’s taken six years to get where I am now and the fact that I have seen so little does not matter to me. Things take time."

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