Layla Neal

Author: Layla Neal

Layla Perchal Neal is a UK photographer based currently in Jacksonville. Photography has been a passion of Layla’s ever since her father gifted her with his 35mm camera as a teenager. Layla has spent a third of her life living outside the UK as an expat and is drawn to documenting the stories of the people, and places she experiences. Layla worked for Al Jazeera in Doha for eight years amongst a wealth of media experience. Currently she is studying for her Masters in Photography at Falmouth in the UK.

Timucuan – How a Forest Healed a Heart

Layla Neal May 18, 2023

This work is about grief, resilience, and recovery, as seen through my connection to a unique landscape in northeast Florida. In 2017, I became a

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