{"id":5715,"date":"2026-06-11T19:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:03:38","slug":"women-in-trees-celebrates-a-quirky-collection-of-anonymous-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/women-in-trees-celebrates-a-quirky-collection-of-anonymous-snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women in Trees\u2019 Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"&#8216;Women in Trees&#8217; Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-8-e1781188342375.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>As collector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/imperfekt.photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jochen Rai\u00df<\/a> (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and antique stalls for the better part of three decades for snapshots, he began to notice a running theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of photos by anonymous photographers with an unusually high number of portraits of women posing in trees. Swiss newspaper <em>Z\u00fcricher Tagesanzeiger<\/em> asked, &#8220;What are they all doing up there?&#8221; And German paper <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> posited that the arbor-climbing might be a &#8220;forgotten popular sport.&#8221; Whatever the reason, the mystery is nearly as fun as the photos.<\/p>\n<p>A hardcover edition of <em>Women in Trees<\/em> from Hatje Cantz, published in German and English, follows two titles published in 2016 and 2017 that celebrate these quirky images. Find your copy on the publisher&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.com\/products\/76647-frauen-auf-baeumen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2877\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474972 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-1-scaled.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3119\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a black-and-white snapshot of two women in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474970 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-10-scaled.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1861\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a spread from a book featuring two black-and-white snapshots of women in trees\" class=\"wp-image-474977 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-6.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3108\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474976 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-5-scaled.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3429\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474975 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-4-scaled.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3427\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a black-and-white snapshot of five women in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474978 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-7-scaled.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1836\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a spread from a book featuring two black-and-white snapshots of women in trees\" class=\"wp-image-474974 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-3.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2954\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a black-and-white snapshot of a woman in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474969 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-9-scaled.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"867\" height=\"1199\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"the cover of the book &#039;Women in Trees&#039; with a black-and-white snapshot of a woman posing in a tree\" class=\"wp-image-474981 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-cover.jpeg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/06\/women-in-trees-book-jochen-raiss-photography\/\">&#8216;Women in Trees&#8217; Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As collector Jochen Rai\u00df (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and antique stalls for the better part of three decades for snapshots, he began to notice a running theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of photos by anonymous photographers with an unusually high number of portraits of women posing in trees. Swiss newspaper Z\u00fcricher Tagesanzeiger asked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globuscruise.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}