Following her studies, photography had remained a passion of hers but Josie started developing her career within interaction design. It was not until she undertook by chance another course in Digital Retouching, that Josie finally decided she’s found her calling and decided to pursue her first love, photography.

After assisting photographers and working as a scan operator for a retouch studio, Josie got together with fellow Englishman Guy and formed the very successful creative partnership, UziPartB (a mixture of Guy’s nickname ‘BenPart’ and Josie’s ‘Uzi’) Their various experiences allowed them to incorporate elements such as retouching and interactivity to great effect and it was only last September that the duo decided to split. “There was nothing horrible behind us deciding to work separately, we just felt it was time for something new. Simple as that”, says Josie.

These days Josie is working on establishing her own name within the photography world. Already well known in the Dutch market, she has recently taken on agents to help her develop her reputation in London and New York. The majority of her work is editorial projects and she’s particularly keen to extend to more UK publications. Luckily, this is an area Josie really enjoys. “Much of my work does have a filmic quality to it which I think stems back to the subjects I studied at university and is ideal for editorial projects. Editorial also gives me all the freedom that I want.”

Josie is keen to also extend into music publicity photography which would include her other passion, music. She often creates styled portraits and providing these within the music industry would be a natural direction for her career. But won’t these new plans drag her away from Amsterdam? “No way, I plan to stay here. I have a great life here – a totally great life – why would I want to leave?” Wise words indeed.