Wonder Window
The Photography of
SUZANNE SEED

After the death of her artist husband, Art Paul, a man best known for having created the famous Playboy Bunny logo, the COVID pandemic intensified Suzanne Seed’s loneliness.  To combat it, she focused on the outside world through her windows from her 75^th floor Chicago apartment.  “When the pandemic arrived, I became a hermit and felt like a prisoner. I started to really see what was out those windows, the ways the light played with the buildings, with the city. The buildings became like company, like neighbors.”

Suzanne began taking photos and posting them online. They were remarkably artful and eye-grabbing, even haunting.  The result was a successful show at Evanston’s Noyes Cultural Arts Center titled “Wonder Window: How Memorializing My City from Three Blocks Above, and During the Pandemic, Transformed Me.” Seed has long been a photographer, as a student at Indiana University, Yale University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has won awards for her work, which have been published in Time, Life, Playboy, Mademoiselle, the Tribune, CBS, the Sun-Times and Daily News. She has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally and published two photo/interview books.