Ziera Laenae learned the importance of narrative and its ties to her skin tone at an early age... She learned that if you want your story told right, you must be the writer, or in this case, the creator. This is where her love for the camera and photography as a medium came from. Tired of not seeing stories that captured her childhood, she began to create them herself. Her work ranges from recreating happy moments in her life to creating new ones that uplift Blackness in all its forms. Ziera Laenae's work is heavily focused on Blackness because without it she wouldn’t be who she is.
