Jean-Pierre Bassin
Cameraman / Photographer
Television
FIFA World Cup - 2014, 2010, 1998
Company - HBS/FIFA Tv
Director - Various
Cameraman
Fat Doctors - 2013
Company - Electric Sky
Director - Nina Lowes
Lighting Cameraman
Kirstie's Crafty Christmas - 2013
Company - Raise The Roof Productions
Director - Lisa McCann
Lighting Cameraman
Paralympics - 2012
Company - OBS
Director - Mike Klatt
OB Cameraman
Miss World - 2011
Company - Sugarland Productions
Director - Warren Batchelor
VT Cameraman
Britain's Strongest Man - 2008
Company - IMG
Director - Will Clough
Feature Cameraman
Hard Labour - 2006
Company - IWC for Discovery
Director - Guy Gilbert
Camera Operator
Trans World Sport - 1990 - Present Day
Company - IMG/TWI
Director - Various
Cameraman
Press Ganged - 2004
Company - Granada for ITV
Director - Ian Riddick
Producer - Alex Gardiner
10 Ways to Save the Planet - 2007
Company - Impossible Pictures for Discovery USA
Director - Nick Clarke Powell
Breaking Magic - 2014
Company - Objective Productions
Director - Atul Malhotra
Working for HBS at the 2014 Brazil World Cup. ENG crew attached with Ivory Cost for the duration of the tournament producing daily team updates for the World broadcasters.
Scrubs on!!
I got to spend some time in theatre filming bariatric surgery. Witnessing how people's life changed after weight loss.
Working for OBS. Two weeks in the Olympic Stadium. Amazing atmosphere and incredible athletes.
Camera crew shooting vt for the final.
150 of the most beautiful women in the world -
it's a hard job, but somebody has to do it!!
Lots of muscles...
But I still had to carry the camera!
A six-part series for Discovery helping young people to find direction in life.
From trawler boats to climbing huge chimney stacks, to felling trees...the job was definitely challenging for all involved.
Over the years that I've been working for Trans World Sport I've had the privilege to travel and work in over 80 countries. As well as mainstream sports like Football, Golf and Tennis, I've also filmed traditional, ancient and totally off the wall sports.
Through this I've met the most intersting and motivating people.
30 days sailing on Kaskelot - a three mast tall ship.
A ten-part series looking at ways to improve our planet. This one was entitled 'Stop the Melt'.
We spent a week camping on the Ice Cap in Greenland.
A multi-camera show bringing magic to television.
Filming female weightlifters in Bolivia.
Whenever you pull out a camera in Africa you become the most popular person around!
With the 'Cholitas' in Bolivia
With local children in Malawi.
Kirstie's Neon Star.
Brazil's Ronaldo receiving the TWS trophy for sportsman of the year back in 1998.
Didier Drogba and me doing a selfie! What a legend he is.
Another shoot with Kirstie Allsop, from the first series of Location, Location, Location until now. Great team, great people. Always a pleasure to be part of that world.
Definitely for the best food I have had on any shoots, especially the Christmas specials!!
Getting ready to film a magic trick in front of Battersea Power Station.
Man vs Expert - 2014
Company - Magnum
Director - Atul Malhotra
A multi-part series based on an expert in a subject competing against the presenter.
This one was paddling the Boar on the River Severn.
Brother Vet Safaris - 2009
Company - IMG
Director - David Hayman
Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Filming specialised safaris where the tourist money helps pay for the vet bills.
Spectacular stuff resulting in one of my all-time favourite photos!