To make her time-based portraits, Susie J. Lee asked her subject—a worker in the oil and natural gas “fracking” industry in her native North Dakota—to sit silently for her video camera for up to 30 minutes at a time. The image becomes an act of observation. This portrait draws attention to Johnny’s human physicality: breaths, scratches, small adjustments, smiles, and piercing blue eyes. The video can be uncomfortable, but once the awkwardness has passed, the image creates a powerful awareness of shared humanity.