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At Home With The Furries is an ongoing photography project by Tom Broadbent, a UK-based photographer.

From the series “At Home With The Furries”, reproduced here courtesy of Tom Broadbent.

The idea behind the photos is simple and effective. He photographs suiters in their homes, performing mundane personal activities. It’s day-to-day stuff: cooking, cleaning, relaxing. All pretty boring yet obviously impractical while wearing a fursuit.

From the series “At Home With The Furries”, reproduced here courtesy of Tom Broadbent.

The concept is an ironic one; juxtaposition of a mundane activity with the ludicrousness of doing so in suit. It places the character of each suit front and centre, in a way that celebrates the identity aspects of the furry experience. Yet it’s the humour that make the pictures special.

From the series “At Home With The Furries”, reproduced here courtesy of Tom Broadbent.

Broadbent’s use of colour and contrast is particularly striking. Photographing fursuits in a natural way is challenging because of garish colours and the general cartoonishness of a giant fuzzy animal-person. Broadbent keeps the furries connected with their environment by putting them around vivid, sharp colours and contrasts.

There is obviously a lot of care in the framing of Broadbent’s pictures despite their ‘slice of life’ quality. There is a diorama quality to them, that encourages the viewer to explore the environment for artefacts that surround and inform the furry character in the centre.

Broadbent’s method has similarities to the cinematography of some of Wes Anderson’s more character-driven work, such as The Royal Tenenbaums.

A still from Wes Anderson’s The Royal “Tenenbaums”

Broadbent chose furries as a subject after coming across the community while working as a photo editor. He has spent several years photographing furries and enjoys a good relationship with the community, including attending the occasional Londonfurs meet.

His furry photos are a win-win for those furries happy to be shot. The furry gets a series of professional photos of themselves in suit; Broadbent owns the copyright. At Home With The Furries has appeared in print several times, most notably in a Sunday Times Magazine feature back in 2013. Broadbent is careful about how his photos are used, and will refuse to sell them unless they are presented in a positive context. (Example: he has outright refused an offer from The Daily Mail.)

At Home With The Furries shares some similarities with a series of photo-manipulations by Christoph Meyer. Meyer’s work is a lot simpler than Broadbent’s, but he creates a similar effect using sepia-toned snapshots, replacing human faces with animals.

Photo manipulation by Christoph Meyer

Meyer’s work similarly draws animal-people out of the fantastical and into the mundane world. Like Broadbent’s work, the works reply on the juxtaposition of the real and unreal. (Unlike Broadbent’s work, Meyer spent “3 days” to complete his series “for fun”, and has no further aspirations, commercial or otherwise.)

Photo manipulation by Christoph Meyer

Sadly, Broadbent’s work is notable for its respect shown towards furries. We are all very familiar with publications who hold furries up for ridicule.

The publications largely define the way furries are presented of course, but the photographers hold some responsibility as well. And there are photographers working with furry, albeit less closely and less personally than Broadbent, who fail to treat the community with a reasonable amount of respect.

One of those is Arthur Drooker, who is due to publish a book titled Conventional Wisdom sometime next year.

From “Conventional Wisdom”, reproduced here courtesy of Arthur Drooker.

Drooker’s photos come from Anthrocon 2014. He worked with the full knowledge of the convention organizers, and the consent of his subjects. However pretty obviously his goal is to show up the furries as “outsiders”, a curiosity to be observed. His work at other conventions—including Bronycon and Fetish Con—has a similar vibe.

Drooker’s work isn’t dishonest but it wilfully fails to put furries into any sort of humanizing context. His photographs furries as if they were like exhibits at a zoo, to be gawked at, shocking for being unexpected and different. He makes no attempt to respect or understand the furry community.

From “Conventional Wisdom”, reproduced here courtesy of Arthur Drooker.

Tom Broadbent is one of those people who helps present furry for what it is, rather than what is most salacious. His interest in our community was driven by his desire to find interesting subjects to photograph, but his obvious care means that he is working for the furry community, rather than merely with the furry community.

In a recent talk, Broadbent noted that several people had their interest piqued by his published work, ultimately leading them to discover the furry community and identify as furries themselves. It’s hard to imagine a better introduction to furry. We should be thankful for the Tom Broadbents of the world.

Tom is currently looking for more fursuiter subjects in the UK South East/London area. He can be contacted via his Twitter (@broadbentius) or at his website (www.tombroadbent.com).

You can see more from At Home With The Furries here.

HEY EVERYONE! It's been a bit over a month since the last art prompt so let's see how this one goes.

This week we're celebrating Spookmas! It's time to get your fursona into their scariest, funniest or weirdest Halloween Costume and draw them in it! Really looking forward to seeing what you guys can come up with! Doot Doot

Week 13

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My son (18) came out to me a week or two ago about being a furry...

At first I wasn't sure I knew what to do about that. I love and support him, and told him so at the time, but the concept is just so alien to me. However, it did serve to educate me.

You see, I'm a transwoman (MTF) who has recently has come out herself. Now I kinda get the reaction to trans as like that sense of different-ness that I felt when my son told me.

I might not get it, but I love my son. If that's what he is into, that's fine with me. I hope he can find love and happiness, just as I finally found relief and happiness becoming the person who I am meant to be...

Just wanted to share. Not all parents are weirded out totally if you come out. Some of us are weird to!

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Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.  USA Today shares a lot of new Zootopia images and story hints. Are you excited for Disney’s new furriest movie?  Mrs. Otterton’s missing husband spurs the action on.  There’s “Duke Weaselton, a small-time weasel crook with a big-time mouth”. Judy Hopps is “a […]

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So recently I've gotten into some new-ish games on steam and have been looking for more people to play with to join me in being new on them!

Most noteable would Vermintide and Killing Floor 2. With Vermintide feeling very heavily like Left4Dead (however in a Warhammer universe) and Killing Floor being a horde-mode wave defense game.

Vermintide (http://store.steampowered.com/app/235540/ )

Killing Floor 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/232090/ )

So yeah, if anyone would like to join me on these (or others), give me a shout at http://steamcommunity.com/id/Insanitarium/

Also remember to check out the redditfurs group on steam!

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I am doing an informative speech on furries and I need an article or two as a source. Anybody have one?

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Good day friends. I've got a day off and currently no inspiration for any new drawings (Though I'm putting together an idea for a very emotional piece) So I thought I'd come to the community and take requests for sketches of all levels of maturity!

Just give me an idea for a sketch (X character doing Y activity, along those lines) and I'll do my best to bring it to life as quickly as possible. If you want me to specifically sketch your character or sona, please provide some sort of ref or apt description and I'll do my best.

While I'm perfectly happy to do NSFW sketches, remember this isn't r/yiff, so no straight up sex or porn. Some playful nudity/raunchy vulgarity is fine with me though!

I'm just going to label the thread NSFW off the bat, just in case (Who am I kidding, for when) somebody requests NSFW art.

These are going to be quick line sketches, though I will do my best. No color, no complex backgrounds, things like that.

Alright folks, sketches are closed! Sorry to those I couldn't get to, but sadly real life calls (And my dog won't quit whining for a walk) So I've gotta go. Thanks for all the ideas and drawing practice, Can't wait to do this again!

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