Photoshop studio printer purchase
Boniface
Siritanyi Village Bungoma, Kenya
100% repaid
Entrepreneur
Name
Boniface
Member since
September 2014
On-time repayments
165 installments • 49%
About Me
I am a 40 year old male photographer and photoshop enthusiast.I am married and have two sons, Baraka and baby Amani. I attended primary school at Lavington primary school in Nairobi,high school in Mbeji academy,Siaya, and continued on to do my A-level education in a school in the neighboring country of Uganda at Bugema Adventist secondary school where i graduated at the top of my class(i shared number 1 with someone to be precise) and qualified to study Law,which i could not afford after my first semester hence dropping out and living on Kampala streets in the country of Uganda.I ventured into photography business and managed to self educate myself on using photo editing techniques using photoshop,and the products i was producing turned heads literally;people in Africa dont have much variety in the photographic products offered them so i created a niche for myself by making photos of my clients and cloning different popular personalities into the photos,either movie stars,presidents,singers,or unique backgrounds such as New York city,London etc.The locals have been thrilled with the work i do and keep on challenging me to clone them into photos with various themes that they ask for.Mostly they will pay way above the local price for the work i do on a single photograph,which helps my income.
I am involved in charity work too and have a charity known as Widows4Christ which helps build houses for widows across Western Kenya where widows are disadvantaged by very retrogressive cultures.In Western Kenya a widow is considered cursed and is not even allowed to attend a wedding because the bulk of the people believe that she will bring a bad omen i.e the end of that marriage.So i am driven to help these women.After their husbands deaths most extended families participate in a very unfair practice of demolishing the deceased mans house despite him leaving behind a wife,they believe that when the husband dies so does the lead of the home and it is also common practice to hand over the widow to the deceased mans brother as an inheritance.I plan on building a website to crowdfund for the widows.I had one but it was being hosted by someone voluntarily and he closed shop.But when we (me and volunteers) have some income and have raised funds online and locally,we move into the widows home and build them a full house within a week,dig a borehole in their compound,and buy her seeds for planting .I love the work we do and when i see a widow smiling it makes my day and is totally worth it.
My Business
I am a photographer and take photos and print them at 50kshs (50 us cents) per photo.I edit the photos to have unique backgrounds and also clone famous movie stars or venues into the photos which makes them popular.
I am looking for some capital to buy an Epson photoprinter and accessories to fulfill my dream of being the best photo studio in town.
Loan Proposal
I would like to buy an Epson P660 printer costing 388$, a new tft monitor for my computer,i have been using an obsolete CRT monitor,the tft monitor costs 55$, and i will buy A4(210 *297 mm) Kodak photo glossy paper (a 20 sheet pack costs 1.33$ ) the Kodak papers are the only ones in town.But i can charge a client( mostly photomen) 30 US cents per photo,making 4 photos from one A4 sheet, thats making 1.20$ per sheet. 20 sheets will make me 24$ per pack of 20 sheets,hopefully.
I will also buy Epson ink at 1$ for every two bottles i buy.I need to buy 20 bottles,4 of each colour as the photo printer uses an external but very convenient Continous Ink Supply System (C.I.S.S). I will add my savings which i had put aside for the studio and purchase a Sony DSC-W350 14.1MP Digital Camera (166$) which is ideal for now. I have a camera stand which i bought three years ago. I have wooden boards and plywood for partitioning the studio too.I will buy three fluorescent light bulbs as temporal lighting as i seek professional studio lights.The light bulbs cost 4$ each. The bulk of my work will target photomen who do not have printers and pay to have the photos printed so my studio photography will be a supplementary one but which i plan to market online through Facebook and possibly a website,many photomen are on Facebook in my hometown and i have been collecting phone numbers and emails.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$566.00
Date disbursed
Apr 13, 2015
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
64 months
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