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Street Performer Turned Photographer an Interview With JJ Waller
In this episode, Patrick is joined by JJ Waller to talk about the way the education system has changed over the years and how it, and their social surroundings shaped them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- One of the things that society needs is theatre in education, drama, improvisation, and acting out of scenarios. It’s a key to understanding empathy and relationships, your sexuality, your place in society, the class system and I’m very sad to think it isn’t prioritised and is always the first thing to be chopped.
- As we get older we become more reactionary, I feel like I’m stuck sitting on the fence quite often not wanting to judge people too quickly. I’m looking to find the good in people. Throughout my whole life I’ve been attracted to opposites and have been interested in being in situations that aren’t part of my norm. I get a buzz from learning and trying to think about people that are different from me.
- I think most of my opportunities in life have come down to luck, though there must be qualities in my personality that could roll with those situations. If I was very shy in public I would be able to go and stand in Covent Garden and attract and entertain crowds of hundreds of people. I didn’t sit down and try to script my life, it was all unplanned.
- Quite often I have a problem expressing what I’m trying to communicate because my attraction to photography is that I’m trying to express my thoughts and feelings with images that I present for a debate between other people rather than explain to you what it means. I’m always trying to understand my own reactions to some of the things I create.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I can’t think of many times when my parents stopped me from doing anything I wanted to do, they were very trusting.’
‘I’m not a workaholic, the opposite of my Dad, likely because I saw the stress being a workaholic put on him.’
‘What surrounds you is the index of your possibilities and it depends on how high or low they are.’
‘Some people wouldn’t call me a street photographer because I’m not just taking a picture, I talk to the subjects.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
JJ Waller is a street performer turned photographer, best known for his street photographs of Brighton, his home town, and other seaside towns, including Blackpool and Benidorm. His portraits of Brighton people during the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown featured in The Guardian, in the BBC4 Lockdown drama Unprecedented and in a 2020 book, JJ Waller's Lockdown.
Website: https://www.jjwaller.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!
CONTACT METHOD
www.theatrenation.org
https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/
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By Patrick KealeyIn this episode, Patrick is joined by JJ Waller to talk about the way the education system has changed over the years and how it, and their social surroundings shaped them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- One of the things that society needs is theatre in education, drama, improvisation, and acting out of scenarios. It’s a key to understanding empathy and relationships, your sexuality, your place in society, the class system and I’m very sad to think it isn’t prioritised and is always the first thing to be chopped.
- As we get older we become more reactionary, I feel like I’m stuck sitting on the fence quite often not wanting to judge people too quickly. I’m looking to find the good in people. Throughout my whole life I’ve been attracted to opposites and have been interested in being in situations that aren’t part of my norm. I get a buzz from learning and trying to think about people that are different from me.
- I think most of my opportunities in life have come down to luck, though there must be qualities in my personality that could roll with those situations. If I was very shy in public I would be able to go and stand in Covent Garden and attract and entertain crowds of hundreds of people. I didn’t sit down and try to script my life, it was all unplanned.
- Quite often I have a problem expressing what I’m trying to communicate because my attraction to photography is that I’m trying to express my thoughts and feelings with images that I present for a debate between other people rather than explain to you what it means. I’m always trying to understand my own reactions to some of the things I create.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I can’t think of many times when my parents stopped me from doing anything I wanted to do, they were very trusting.’
‘I’m not a workaholic, the opposite of my Dad, likely because I saw the stress being a workaholic put on him.’
‘What surrounds you is the index of your possibilities and it depends on how high or low they are.’
‘Some people wouldn’t call me a street photographer because I’m not just taking a picture, I talk to the subjects.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
JJ Waller is a street performer turned photographer, best known for his street photographs of Brighton, his home town, and other seaside towns, including Blackpool and Benidorm. His portraits of Brighton people during the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown featured in The Guardian, in the BBC4 Lockdown drama Unprecedented and in a 2020 book, JJ Waller's Lockdown.
Website: https://www.jjwaller.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!
CONTACT METHOD
www.theatrenation.org
https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/