With the continuous mushrooming of photographers, photojournalists and photography businesses in Kigezi Sub-Region, experts have urged them to embrace digital transformation to sustainably improve their well-being as well as catch up with the new technological era.
These under the Kigezi Photographers Association were today asked to shift from the analog way of conducting their businesses and upgrade to the digital way during a one-day workshop held at Assembly Hotel in Kabale District that was sponsored by Bricolps International and Finca Bank.
Aggrey Matsiko, the proprietor of Bricolps International Studios, said that this workshop aims to equip the photographers with modern technology and open them to the global village of economic-digital transformation.
Matsiko further says that photographers have always faced a challenge of a lack of resources to assist them in upgrading to the updated gadgets and skills hence the involvement of Finca Bank to help them out with Special Offer Loans.
Fred Muhiguranga an economist says that the current era is of digital calling upon the photographers to be innovative and catch up with technology saying that it is imperative to note that digital technology is opening new doors for the global empowerment for various groups of people including the photographers.
Muhiguranga further calls upon photographers and other business people to consider cost minimization in their businesses if a business can’t stand where expenses are higher than income.
The chairperson for the Kigezi Photographers Association James Biryomumisho says that the improvement in technology has assisted them in avoiding loss reduction compared to what they initially faced, especially damages caused by hard copies of photographs and printing out of unclear photos.
The manager Finca Bank, Kabale Branch Charles Bakonizi says that they have gazzated a special offer for photographers in line with their business under the personal development loan that will assist them in purchasing gadgets of their choice.
Digital transformation not only changes the world of business but also as new technologies arise, it inevitably changes itself and becomes more accessible
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