Waleed Abu-Ghazaleh is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian designer. He is Managing Partner at Khayal Consultants, a leading visual design and interactive development firm.

Talk summary: While chronicling the separation Wall in Palestine through photography, a surprising thing happened. Besides the images of misery and suffering we expected, the camera also caught a people which countered this expectation: faces of compassion, perseverance and hope rarely seen in Western media’s usual portrayal of Palestinians.

The resulting photo journal depicts the humanity of a resilient people backed by statistics from U.N. sources. All proceeds go to charity. lovewinspalestine.org