I’m Harrison Sheehan, an American filmmaker, and photographer now living in Barcelona, and I’m known for my voracious appetite for art of all ages, forms, and mediums. Often, I am inspired to connect artistic influences together and to my current life.

While living in Spain, I reacquainted myself with “Pandora & The Flying Dutchman,” a technicolor supernatural melodrama starring Ava Gardner that was shot on location in Costa Brava in 1951. The film’s marriage of ambivalence and fatalistic glamour resonates with my own experience here.

I’ve also lately been drawn to the facetious attitudes toward masculinity in gay magazines of the 1970s. These men with mischievous smiles and a hard-on gesturing, “Isn’t this hilarious?”

Connecting these influences, my current life, and even the Spanish queer zeitgeist of the moment, FLYING DUTCH is a photography series inspired by Pandora, reinterpreted and framed in the aesthetic of gay Magazines of the 1970s. It’s an expression of my inner journey over the last two very eventful years, sincerely (and literally) revealing more than I ever have before.

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