🎭 Culture Jun 11, 2026 · Kate Mothes

‘Women in Trees’ Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots

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‘Women in Trees’ Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots
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As collector Jochen Raiß (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 Züricher Tagesanzeiger asked, “What are they all doing up there?” And German paper Der Spiegel posited that the arbor-climbing might be a “forgotten popular sport.&#

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