![]() It was a big f-king airplane, like a 737 or something.’ That was the first time I heard of a second plane, and then he said he heard the Pentagon may have also gotten hit. We were looking up at the building and I was photographing it, and the police officer said, ‘I was here when the second plane hit. “I was standing next to a New York City police officer and a woman who was an EMT. It’s not like I’m experiencing it, I’m seeing it through my camera. You have to commit to journalism, remember what your job is, and not get emotionally involved. You want to make sure you don’t miss that photograph. I don’t really think about if I’m scared or not. When I’m there I get in a zone and do my job and capture what’s there. “Myself as a photojournalist I’m like a first responder, as all journalists are in that situation, so we run to something instead of away from it when something happens. I had a Nikon DCS-620, which was one of their early models-a hybrid Kodak-Nikon camera-and I was using a 70-200mm zoom lens. I had a perfect view of both buildings and figured that was where I could cover the assignment. I ended up at the northwest corner of West and Vesey Street-where the Goldman Sachs building is now-where the ambulances were congregating. Already, some police had taped off the debris that had been blown over, cars had windows knocked out, and I slowly made my way over to the west side of the building by the West Side Highway because the wind was blowing west-to-east and I didn’t want the smoke obscuring my view. I photographed one guy who was walking towards me with his head bleeding because I think it had been hit by debris. I immediately started photographing people. ![]() “When I came up the steps of the subway station I looked up and saw that both of the towers were on fire.
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