Texts by Tom Morton and Geoff Cox

Third Life is the new monograph by photographer Norbert Schoerner. Assembled as a cinematic narrative, this book collects new and previously unseen work produced over the last seven years. In equal measures a photographic diary and a sequence of remarkable tableaux, Third Life traces Schoerner's journeys across the globe. Through the juxtaposition of carefully chosen urban and rural landscapes with images from his photographic sketchbook, Schoerner explores representation in the context of mass availability and re-purposing of digital images in the www environment.

Norbert Schoerner is a photographer and filmmaker whose fashion campaigns have included Comme des Garçons and Prada; his editorial work has been seen in The Face, New York Times Magazine, Vogue and many other publications. Schoerner's work has been widely exhibited, including shows at White Cube, Chapman Fine Arts and the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2006). This is his second collaboration with Violette, following a photographic essay he created for Judith Clark's and Adam Philips' The Concise Dictionary of Dress (2010).

Tom Morton is a writer and curator based in London. He is co-Curator of British Art Show 7, and Contributing Editor of Frieze magazine.

Geoff Cox has worked with film directors John Hillcoat, Philippe Grandrieux, Asia Argento, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Peter Strickland, and musicians Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Cyclobe, among others. He wrote the text for Ossian Brown's book of Halloween photographs Haunted Air (Jonathan Cape, 2010) with an introduction by David Lynch and is the author of Anna & the Witch's Bottle (2009) and Anna & the Juniper Dog (2011) the first two volumes of a trilogy illustrated by Rohan Daniel Eason and published by Black Maps Press. He lives on an island in Oxford.