A Day With Tess Management

Merle @ Tess Management

One of my absolute favourite things to do is a day packed full of testing. And that’s exactly what I did in early November (just before lockdown 2.0 kicked in) with Tess Management. 5 girls in a day is a lot of models to photograph, but my Swiss-ness comes out to play whenever I need to get really organised, and I planned the day down to the minute.

I have to say a massive thank you to each of the models, because they all arrived exactly on time, which meant that my organisation skills really worked! We got through a day full of creativity with literally zero stress, and the whole team came away with some really lovely imagery for our books. It was a great chance for me to try out some new ideas too. I went to Ikea a few days before the shoot and purchased a whole bunch of curtains! This meant that for quite a small budget, I was able to create quite a few different set ups. We were in the wonderful PS Spaces in Wimbledon, which gets such gorgeous light throughout the day, so we moved the sets around depending on what the light was doing.

As always, the whole team for this was fantastic, and I can’t wait to do another day of testing like this. I hope you love the images as much as I do!

Make up by Abigail Lemar

Hair by Ryn Zhan

Styling by Caitlin Forbes