With a total cost of 166 million Euro and more than 18.000 security forces the 48th Group of 7 (G7) was held in June 2022 in Castle Elmau in Bavaria, Germany. The summit was the first for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The outcome of the summit was long-awaited, considering the climate crisis. However the leaders of 7 countries didn´t manage to address the all encompassing issue of the global climate collapse adequately. I spent three days there to document that around and the subplot of the event.
Gil Bartz is a freelance photographer and cinematographer based in Frankfurt Main. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1981. After completing his studies in 2002, he started to work 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. He graduated in 2012. Since 2020 he is working on a long term photo project about the effect of the climate change.
