Laravel - Cordova File Transfer error 1 Laravel

I'm working on an Ionic angular 1 app where I want to upload a picture to my laravel api server. However I'm getting error 1 (File not found?) and an laravel php error as error body back. I've followed multiple examples for uploading files this way, I keep getting this errors..

Angular Code:

$scope.takePicture = function () {
          var options = {correctOrientation: true,
            saveToPhotoAlbum: true,
            encodingType: 0,
            sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY,
            mediaType: Camera.MediaType.PICTURE,
            destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI};
          getPicture(options);
        };
var getPicture = function(options) {
      navigator.camera.getPicture(onCapturePhoto, onFail, options);
        };
     function onFail(message) {
      alert('Failed because: ' + message);
        }
 function onCapturePhoto(fileURI) {
          $scope.pictures.push(fileURI);
        }
 $scope.uploadPhoto = function () {
      var repairJobId = 1;
      for(var i=0; i<$scope.pictures.length;i++){
            repairJobService.uploadPhoto($scope.pictures[i],repairJobId);
      }
    };

So here I'm storing my pictures in an array because I want to display them in the app and make a queue for the upload process.

Angular Service:

function uploadPhoto(file,repairJobId) {
          var win = function (r) {
            console.log("Code = " + r.responseCode);
            console.log("Response = " + r.response);
            console.log("Sent = " + r.bytesSent);
          };
          var fail = function (error) {
            alert("An error has occurred: Code = " + error.code);
            console.log("upload error source " + error.source);
            console.log("upload error target " + error.target);
            console.log("response code " + error.responseCode);
            console.log("error:  " + JSON.stringify(error));
          };
          // Destination URL
          var url = 'http://192.168.137.1/ac-laravel/public/api/photo/add';
          // File name only
          var filename = file.split("/").pop();
          console.log("filename:"+ filename);
          var headers={'X-Requested-With':'XMLHttpRequest'};
          var options = new FileUploadOptions({
            fileKey: "photo",
            fileName: filename,
            chunkedMode: false,
            headers: headers,
            params : {'repair_job_id':repairJobId} // directory represents remote directory,  fileName represents final remote file name
          });
          var ft = new FileTransfer();
          console.log(file, encodeURI(url));
           ft.upload(file, encodeURI(url),win, fail, options, true);
    }

Laravel function :

public function storeRepairJobPhotos2($request)
{
        $destinationPath = 'uploads/';
        $newImageName='MyImage.jpg';
        $request::file('photo')->move($destinationPath,$newImageName);
}

Errors I get : Cordova Error Code 1

Laravel error : ErrorException in Factory.php line 91:\n Argument 2 passed to Illuminate\Validation\Factory::make() must be of the type array, null given, called in D:\PROGRAMS\wamp64\www\ac-laravel\bootstrap\cache\compiled.php

Anyone an idea? Maybe I can't just give the image URI to the upload process?