LAURA & KAYLA
This page is about the photography project collection and lifelong friendship of Laura McDonald and Kayla McCullough. They have been besties for more than 16 years since their first meeting from Kindergarten in 1st grade to graduating High School together. Laura and Kayla represents the true beauty of black love and excellence within their unique style, appearance, personality and the way how they view into the real world in front of their eyes of their lives. Each shot tells its own story behind different poses, and settings (whenever it's set in New Jersey, New York, etc). Every shot also represents the emotions, tones, and visual friendship art concepts between the two. Whenever they are in a picture together or in a shot individually, the girls continue to show mutual love, support, and respect for each other on and off set every day.
LAURA MCDONALD
Laura McDonald is an NJ-based actress, singer, and writer becoming very creative in the Performing Arts Department. She started her acting journey and career in elementary school at a young age as well as performing her vocal piece works in church with her family. Laura also attended and is a graduate alumni at Teaneck High School (Class of 2019), and the Circle In The Square Theatre School in Times Square, New York to pursue more in the acting field. She made her first two debut film roles as Paris in Times Square Church's holiday movie, Silent Night: A Christmas Journey, and Dinah (Stranger 2) in the film Three Days Later. In December 2022, Laura was making a long #AdelePlease series story on her Instagram page promoting herself going to see Adele's Live Concert in Las Vegas back in March 2023 with Kayla and Tahjay, and to also get Adele's attention of course. She is currently working on her first upcoming playwright story titled "Third Tattoo", which is set to be released very soon.
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KAYLA MCCULLOUGH
Kayla McCullough is an NJ-based future filmmaker, writer, producer, and director who is very passionate of the Visual Arts Department. Kayla enjoys making videos, creating visual storytelling and developing mini projects becoming a part of the fun process of the Film and Television industry as well as becoming a production assistant from her previous intern experiences. She also attended and is a graduate alumni at Teaneck High School (Class of 2019), and Montclair State University (Class of 2023), where she earned her BFA in Visual Arts of Film and Television along with Cinema/Video Studies in Montclair, New Jersey. In the past during her early days, Kayla lived in different parts of Europe from a few months to a year with her close family before moving to New Jersey when she was young.
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Black Women Friendship
The particular shots below represents the beautiful friendship Laura and Kayla contains, who sends a powerful message to the rest of the black women out there in the large community, especially in a black culture who are resilient and have found joy within themselves. They show moral love and support for each other to laugh, joke with, and also lean onto during the times of their ruthless periods of trouble and traumatic experiences in the past, as they are enjoying their life during on and off days on top of that. Black love and excellence can also be mentioned as a part of growth, loyalty, and understanding based on one's personality and manner in a positive way, leaving the right message to individuals. Laura and Kayla also represent various Black female friendships from TV Shows and Movies such as:
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Issa & Molly - Insecure
Tia & Tamera - Sister, Sister
Khadijah, Synclaire, Maxine, & Regine - Living Single
Quinn, Camille, Tye, & Angie - Harlem
Katherine, Dorothy, & Mary - Hidden Figures
And many more!
