About the Website
In Dan Brown’s novel "Inferno", Robert Langdon wakes up dizzy and amnesic, slowly regaining clarity as he is thrust again into a search for truth. Though he has never visited the historical sites involved, he relies on his academic knowledge of Florence and its symbols to solve the riddles before him. As events accelerate, he finds himself racing against time to stop a dangerous virus before it achieves its devastating purpose.
I read "Inferno" during my own real-life hell: the Covid era. My flatmate in London was infected at the peak of the outbreak, walking the same corridors I was using, while authorities forbade leaving the house in April 2020. Then the rule of six was established, which finally allowed restricted outdoor walks.
With limited options, I returned to an old habit: visiting historical sites and building photo albums. But this time the habit expanded — anything worth documenting became part of the journey. And like a thousand-mile trip beginning with a single step, I ended up with thousands of photos requiring careful organization, forming a visual archive of experiences, ideas, and encounters with nature and culture across the world.
Welcome to "The Whale Point", the space shaped by the journeys born during Covid-19 — a personal place where I share my travels, my images, and the special locations navigated throughout this brief moment we call life.
My Journey Map
A Few Words About Me
Wael Jrad was born in Nizwa, the ancient capital of the Sultanate of Oman, before his parents returned to Tunisia, settling in Kairouan — the historic capital of the Aghlabid Emirate. There he completed high school before moving to Tunis, and later leaving after the start of the Arab Spring to pursue engineering studies in the south of France.
He then worked four years in Paris, leaving during the Yellow Vest movement, followed by four years in London, witnessing both the Brexit debates and the arrival of the virus. Today, he finds himself living in Stockholm.