Nathan Blaney had just walked into the East Village bar Bull McCabe's on Friday when he heard the blast.
The photographer, who shot the events of September 11 and says he hasn't left home without a camera since then, ran around the corner and right into the aftermath of a gas-related explosion that tore through the Sushi Park restaurant at 2nd Avenue and 7th Street. Blaney then started taking photos.
"I was on scene about one minute post-explosion," he told Mashable. "In those first moments, people were saying 'bomb' rather than 'gas explosion' but either way, I had a sense of what images I was looking for. As the scene evolved, I tried to document the events as they unfolded," he said. Read more...
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