These images are inspired by my collection of vintage Florida postcards. I use an old Pentax 645 camera with Kodak Portra 120 film. I love this format because it reminds me of a canvas. I set out to capture quintessential Florida scenes that I can color myself. The color palette is evocative of faded beach town colors, ice cream cones and summer nostalgia.
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.
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