Photographer, film maker, and Chinatown Soccer Club’s defender, Peter Sutherland is showing at Half Gallery tomorrow evening. Light and dark is explored in Sutherland’s exhibition, Victory over Darkness. Half Gallery explains:

“The title of the exhibition is taken from a sign Sutherland saw at a church in the California desert. For him, this combination of words is open to interpretation but can also stand as a type of global slogan about politics and war, sex and love, violence and peace, beauty and ugliness, struggle and freedom – with a tinge of Gothicism and romance. Imagery and situations that reflect these type of opposites is a strong aspect in the work; in fact, the 1970 documentary film “Gimme Shelter” by Alfred Maysles, which chronicles the last weeks of the Rolling Stones 1969 US tour, is the blueprint for Sutherland’s art. “Gimme Shelter” is the culmination of everything – an uncontrolled film with strong poetic visuals."

Victory over Darkness will be on view until October 15.

Evan Hecox is known by most as a painter and illustrator but he also has a great eye for photography. It may be surprising at first until you look further and realize that many of his photographs resemble his paintings. Telephone wires, trucks, beaten up cars, signs, and crushed beer cans. These are all potential reference materials for his work. The composition in some of his photographs are similar to the paintings. Have a look through not one, but two photo sites he has, (Journal & Photography) and you will see an artist’s eye, framing moments that many might not have noticed.

It’s uncertain how long Ari Marcopolis has had his blog, EXFED. The earliest date is somewhere around June of 2007. He’s best know for photographing the youth of downtown New York, the Beastie Boys, and any sport involving a board. It’s a stream of consciousness, a random sort, a mixture of portraits and moments in life. It’s mundane and profound all at once. Many of the photographs are time stamped, something we rarely see these days, but emphasizes the “of-the-moment” quality. Dive into EXFED now and get lost. Ari Marcopolis will be showing at Ratio 3 in San Francisco starting this Friday, September 9th.

Ed. Varie the East Village gallery and bookshop has quietly been organizing some exciting shows and events including last year’s launch of Apartamento #5 where they hosted “Tasca, Everyday Life Recipes,” a dinner event that was held over 3 nights. For their latest exhibition “Departure,” featuring polaroids from Amanda Marsailis and Thayer Allyson Gowdy, Ed. Varie teamed up with Makr Carry Goods to develop a case made especially for Polaroid’s iconic SX-70 camera. Manufactured from 1972-1981, the SX-70 was the number one selling camera in America at one point. The collectibility and cult-like following of the SX-70 gave the camera iconic status with some fetching upwards to $500 on eBay. The design of the case is based on the original and updated with Makr’s signature stitching and top notch material and construction. Only 10 were produced. The show is on view for only one more day, this Thursday, June 30th from 12-6 and the cases may not last much longer. Contact Ed. Varie for more details.

If film is truth at 24 frames per second what is a still photograph? For Wim Wenders’s latest body of work, it’s loneliness, isolation, and discovery. Since 1983, on a scouting trip for Paris, Texas, Wenders has been photographing landscapes, most devoid of any human interaction. Some are Hopper-esque many are haunting. Haunch of Venison in London, is showing this collection of photographs in an exhibition called “Places, strange and quiet.” The exhibit pulls together nearly 40 photographs from Salvador, Brazil to Butte, Montana. For the many that won’t be able to journey to London to see the show, a catalog has been published to accompany the exhibit. (via Creative Review)

“From the Heartland” is an upcoming photo exhibition documenting the men and women who work in the factory of Red Wing. The exhibit will be on view during Bread & Butter in Berlin, eventually traveling to Copenhagen for Fashion Week and then closing out in Amsterdam. Fortunately for the rest of us, the exhibit will be online in February.