In the weeks after Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, Jon Chodat found himself living in the middle of the police manhunt for the two prisoners. Chodat, a photographer from Malone, New York, lives just down the road from the camper where police say Matt spent time while on the run. Chodat used his camera to get an inside look at the manhunt for the prison escapees from his property. His photo of police during the manhunt is seen here.

Sweat, 34, (left) and Matt, 48, (right), who escaped together from the Dannemora, New York, prison, went separate ways towards the end of their three weeks as fugitives. On June 26, Matt was shot and killed in Elephant’s Head, New York, police said. Two days later, Sweat was wounded and captured in Constable, New York. He is being held at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, New York.

This map shows the path Sweat told police he and Matt took after escaping from the prison, which is in pink, and the route of the snow mobile trails is in yellow. Police were searching the entire area.

Chodat had a firsthand view of the manhunt for Matt and Sweat as police, pictured here in one of Chodat’s photos, walked through his property and surrounded the nearby area. “On Friday, when they found out [Matt] was there, everything just broke loose. There were trucks, troops and everything, and I found out they blocked off the road both ends,” Chodat told ABC News’ “20/20.” Chodat said he had the choice of leaving but decided to stay. “It was kind of a little bit of a thrill, little bit nerve-wracking,” he said.

Chodat, whose photography work mostly consists of nature, scenic views and portraits, said he doesn’t consider himself a photojournalist because he gets nervous near conflict, but wanted to capture the action of the manhunt. “I’m just taking a lot of pictures cause, you know, being a photographer, that was a good time to take pictures,” Chodat said. “There was so much going on.” Chodat took this photo of police near the end of his driveway.

From his property, Chodat was able to take a photo of a helicopter landing in the street.

At one point, while police were in his area, however, Chodat said a member of the SWAT team thought he was a journalist, who wasn’t allowed in the area, and yelled at him. “He was coming down my driveway here, and he started yelling at me,” Chodat said. “And I said, ‘Well this is my property.’”

Though he knew was in a dangerous area during the manhunt, Chodat said he was prepared. “I had a shotgun. It was loaded, and I checked my buildings on a regular basis,” Chodat said. “You’re on edge a little bit. It was, you know, it was a lot going on here.”

The camper that Matt spent some time in after separating from Sweat is seen here in a photo Chodat took. Chodat, who lived down the road from the camper in Franklin County, New York, said he and others who lived in the area forgot about it. “It had been there so long and sort of abandoned that I don’t think anybody really remembered where it was,” said Chodat.

The camper’s kitchen is seen here in a photo Chodat took. The rusty camper is hidden in the woods by deep brush and located right off Route 30, a main road in the area.

When the area was completely surrounded, Matt left the camper. The inside of the camper is seen here in a photo Chodat took.

After he left the camper, Matt lay down in the woods cornered by police and pointed his 20-gauge shotgun towards the troopers who lined the road. He coughed and betrayed his position to the border patrol national tactical team New York State Police Major Charles Guess told ABC News. Police are seen here in a photo taken by Chodat during the manhunt.

Chodat took this photo of police standing in the road during the manhunt for Sweat and Matt. After Matt betrayed his position, a border patrol agent ordered him to drop his shotgun. When he didn’t comply with the agent’s instructions, Matt was shot and killed.

Meanwhile, Sweat had made it outside of the police perimeter and was just a couple of miles from the Canadian border. “As darkness approached and we had nobody -- no second inmate in custody -- it became a bit worrisome because everything changes when the sun sets here,” Guess said.

Police, some of whom Chodat captured in this photo, continued their search for Sweat. Sergeant Cook, a local trooper from Guess’s team, spotted Sweat walking in camouflage near a road. After chasing him, Cook shot at Sweat twice, hitting him in the back and upper torso, to which Sweat dropped to the ground.

Police are pictured here with David Sweat shortly after he was captured. Chodat said the manhunt and close police activity was “kind of fun in a way,” but that he is glad the ordeal is over. “I’d like to go back to the quietness here,” Chodat said. “I like the nature and the lack of people.”