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How Fatherhood Alters Your View of the World
The photographer’s wife, Julie, and his daughter, Mazie, in Oakland, Calif., Oct. 8, 2016. Photos by Rian Dundon

How Fatherhood Alters Your View of the World

 

 

Photographs by Rian Dundon. Text by David Gonzalez.

Fatherhood, when new life begins — and old lives become sleep-deprived hallucinations glimpsed between midnight feedings and diaper changes.

Mothers are expected to know the deal, multitasking as if they had six hands, supernatural powers of perception and infinite patience. And dads? Too often portrayed as poster children for goofy ineptitude who need those how-to-be-a-dad books with pithy aphorisms and gauzy photos of little feet.

Rian Dundon wasn’t sure what to expect as a new father. But he knew he wasn’t a buffoon. In his project “New Life,” he has documented not just the arrival of his daughter, Mazie, in 2016, but how fatherhood alters how you look at the world.

Read the full story from The New York Times.

 

Rian Dundon is a photographer and editor in Oakland, California.

Co-published with The New York Times.

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Rian Dundon is a photographer and editor in Oakland, California. He is a contributing editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and contributes to The New York Times, City Lab and California Sunday Magazine, among other publications.

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