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Leaning from our tuk tug to capture an image in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Photograph by Channa Uy,.Leaning from our tuk tug to capture an image in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Photograph by Channa Uy,.

For many, many years, this was the "Joe" everyone expected to see.

This photo of me was taken by our guide in Cambodia, Ms. Channa Uy. More of her at https://www.myworldmyeyes.com

My band students at Santa Rosa Boarding School in Arizona.My band students at Santa Rosa Boarding School in Arizona.

My entire career as an educator was in Native America/Alaska. I found my students to be beautiful and their culture utterly fascinating.

Even as I felt the momentous obligation to capture fast-disappearing ways of life, I always knew that it was my good fortune to be "there" and to have known "them."