‘Seek permission for pics’

In the age of smartphones and social media, clicking away in public without seeking the subject’s permission has become de rigueur, but not for Bill Hayes, the New York-based writer and photographer. “I always ask for permission before I take a photograph,” said Hayes, during his conversation with Sooni Taraporevala, also a writer and photographer, in a session titled ‘Capturing the rainbow in black and white’.Taraporevala said, “Mumbai is a hell for photographers. It’s humid, there are space constraints. I lost a lot of negatives. You can’t have a room dedicated to photo archives,” she said.