It’s a good job because he probably would have had to wait a long time if he had had to rely solely on his earnings from modeling …What wasn’t made clear in the original reports but has now come to light is that although people were paying 100som to have their photograph taken with him … but a large portion of that went to the photographer and Rayimbaev was receiving just 500 to 1000 som a day. As I said in the postcard, nowhere near the “sort of fees that other photo models can count on”.