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Please note that the report and this message is prepared for and should only be viewed by our members. It should not, under any circumstance, go outside of AvTvISO.
Please note that we will not make any other transactions before 2nd April 2021 for this year’s accounts. If we need to make any other transactions, they will reflect in the 2021-22 finance report.
For this year, we didn’t maintain our financial records in a more professional template unfortunately as we had not expected to transact this much of money for AvTvISO. Next year (2021/22) onwards, we will maintain the records in more professional template. Having said this, I want to ensure that you know that this year, as in the past, we have maintained very detailed accounts of each & every transaction, just not used a formal template to do so. Hence, it’s a basic excel sheet that we have used that may lack many visual functionalities.
I have already shared the detailed financial transactions records & provisional report with Maheswaran, Kiran, Sadiqur, Shiven and Hannes (5 members) for their review as they are our executive body. They have reviewed & now I have their approval. I will share the report in our WhatsApp group for all the members to view.
AvTvISO’s finance has been mainly managed by Mrs Purnima, Sadiqur & me. I will take the responsibility for any error & I will correct and compensate for it.
This year we spent lots of money. Infact, we spent it all in our promotion & building our reputation considering 2021/22 prospects. I can say that we are succeeding in our plans to a great extent. Many international photographers & organizers are now considering us as one of the leading photography organizations of India. Infact, many organizations in India have also started “copying” many of our distinctive features.
For example, we are the 1st in India & probably 3rd in the world who started Virtual meetings on photography on Zoom when the lockdown started.
Not only that, we are the first photographic organization in the world who started collecting donations for noble causes during COVID.
Many clubs have started making their own specifically crafted medals after seeing our unique medals.
Our entry fees (350/- for National & 555/- for National Circuit, No Discount Policy) has now become a standard.
Our catalogue, communication & service is the best & photographers across the world are acknowledging it.
We have used the tagline “Excellence in Photography” for the past 2 years and have even used in it in our medals manufactured in 2018. Infact we called our AvTvISO medal EiP medal. EiP stands for Excellence in Photography.
We also own two exclusive domains (www.excellenceinphotography.com & www.excellencein.photography) with the hashtag (#excellenceinphotography) and both are redirected to our website or its initiatives. These domains are in high demand and we have been approached by a few buyers already for them. We do not have any intentions of selling these domains unless the money is very high. For example, we will think of selling www.excellenceinphotography.com if the minimum bid for it is $8000.
You will find that some clubs (especially from Kolkata) are trying to use the word “excellence” in their awards and certificates and have told us quite openly that they are influenced to use this word because of AvTvISO.
We also were the first club to design Camera shaped medals for IIG. Now we see many other clubs across the world are designing camera shaped medals for their initiatives as well.
We are the best… we are influential… and we will be better each year!
We will become one of the best in the world soon too!
IIG is the talk of the town today as one of the best open salon practicing group known for its transparency.
Initially I wanted to have more members in our group. But Shiven was against it. So we will follow Shiven’s advice & be a small group. Perhaps its better to call us a small close-knit family. Our membership will be exclusively invitation based & we will accept new members only if all members agree to adding the proposed name. Also, we will continue following Shiven’s policy in AvTvISO group meetings, “We believe in giving each other hard feedback and we actively avoid people-pleasing feedback to develop our photography skills.”
One more thing to note is about Uttar Purv. Last year, Sadiqur & I started Uttar Purv, another photographic organization as an initiative of AvTvISO to better engage North East India. We had noticed that barring a particular club, there are few other clubs to engage photographers in this region. We have partnered with two photographers from North East, Saurabh Baruah & Mayurjyoti Das for Uttar Purv.
It was decided a few days ago in a meeting with Saurabh and Mayurjyoti that Uttar Purv will be an independent photography club & not be a part of AvTvISO. It will be led by Saurabh & Mayur with the help of Sadiqur. AvTvISO & I will help them whenever they need any help from us just as we continue helping other clubs. I will be fully committed only towards AvTvISO and we will slowly expand AvTvISO in the north east regions as a premier photography club. We will share our AvTvISO platform with deserving photographers from North East, especially in Sikkim and Nagaland.
We have big dreams with AvTvISO. We want to have our own FIAP Exhibition Centre. We spent a lot of money with this aim to run our future RGB salons successfully & to convert IIG into an International Salon Photography Organization.
The last update in this message is that we will continue RGB with PSA patronage without FIAP approval atleast in 2021. We will reconsider taking FIAP patronage in 2022 or later.
We will also not take FIP approval for CMYK. So we may discontinue CMYK from 2022 or we may run it on an experimental basis with IIG patronage in 2022. We will take a decision later this year depending on how we are running IIG. So in effect, we will have only 1 salon, i.e., RGB. We also may run 1 IIG PSA approved circuit if we find two suitable partner clubs.
Please feel free to ask any question you have at any time. I will be happy to answer them.
Udayan Sankar Pal
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We Care!
At AvTvISO, we photographers care for the subjects we click! We care for the wellbeing of our surroundings. We encourage our members to take care of each other, known or stranger, photographers or not. We car | | | |
![28th Member Meet-7Nov2020 at 20:30IST [-1]](PP_20240613021045PM_10.jpeg)
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