Photography sales in Vanuatu
13 August 2012 | Port Resolution, Tanna, Vanuatu
Jim Thomsen
Message to our accounting firm: Hello Mr. Walwick, I need some tax advice for our 2012 return. As you know I have invested in good camera equipment and software and photo printers, but you had said it is hard to write off all our sailing travel around the world as a business loss for James Thomsen Photography since I had no income to show for my photography. Well, things have changed and I have sold more than 50 photos this year. One was a framed print to my brother for $10.
Over the past couple of weeks I have sold more than 50 photo prints on the remote islands of Aneityum and Tanna in the South Pacific country of Vanuatu. Most were for passport size photos required for the local soccer teams to compete in the Vanuatu National games. I have also sold a number of family portraits and prints of children.
So far I have received more than 20 kilograms of bananas, 28 grapefruits, 36 papaya, 40 chockos, 10 kilos of snake beans, a couple of dozen eggs and some handwoven baskets. The photos of the village Chief I gave as a gift, so I guess that will be charged to marketing.