Furry photog Tommy Bruce regroups post-pandemic
“I think I always feel like, for the work I make, it requires a little bit of context up front,” artist and photographer Tommy Bruce tells SFR. “I’m giving some of the history and the culture with straightforward documentary work, then showing more of the recent work that’s a little more studio-driven and...the aspects of the culture that I find interesting.”
What culture, you may ask? Furry culture—which, when boiled down to its simplest definition, is about anthropomorphized animal-based characters. There can be a sexual edge or not, but regardless, it’s a subculture that has long been the butt of lazier jokes from kink-shaming types.