TIMELINE is Yvonne Hellin Hobbs and Seimon Pugh Jones. Both veterans of the film and television industry, Seimon and Yvonne decided to join forces and use their combined skills and talents to produce a unique product, reconstructed images from history.

After studying photography at Dyfed College of Art until 1985, Seimon went on to work as staff photographer at the Gwendraeth Valley Archive Project and then for the MoD Pendine, where he developed his skills in high speed and aerial photography and video production. There followed a three year spell as lighting cameraman with Cwmni Hon Aberystwyth before joining the National Library of Wales as preservation officer, restoring and preserving their photographic archive until 2003.

In his spare time Seimon has always collected uniform and memorabilia, particularly vintage cameras, and enjoyed participating in World War II re-enactments, and photographing them. This led to his involvement in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan film, in the webbing department, and, in 2000, a stint as a one man vintage camera unit on HBO’s Band of Brothers series, in which Seimon not only appears on screen, but also supplied the 16mm vintage film sequences that were so authentic, Mr. Spielberg himself thought they were undiscovered archive footage!

Seimon has since been involved in many television and film productions in posts as diverse as reconstruction co-ordinator, supplying props, costumes, locations and actors, notably for Battle Stations for the History Channel, to make-up artist on the recent History Channel documentary about the SAS, The Originals, and another stint as vintage camera unit, in costume and on screen in BBC’s D-Day 6-6-44, which followed the wartime career of real life wartime photographer Robert Capa.

One day in 2003 Seimon had a phone call from Texas, USA, asking if he would like to join the staff of a brand new history magazine called Armchair General. There followed a four year period of bliss for Seimon. In his words; “I was to receive scripts and ideas from the States and translate them into photographic reconstructions. This was an amazing opportunity for me to develop my ideas, further my skills and to create images that were unique in their style and content. I was to be totally responsible for photo shoots, including location, actors, lighting, effects, make-up, costume, direction and post production for America’s biggest history publishing company.

I loved every minute of it; it allowed me to develop my skills and style in such a way that would otherwise have been totally impossible for me. For this, I am eternally grateful to my ex boss Eric Weider, a wonderful caring employer, for those extraordinary opportunities that he gave me. The images on this website are a direct result of those years with Armchair General Magazine.

Thank you Eric!”

Seimon now looks forward to using his talent and skills in wider fields of entertainment and heritage to produce commissioned images for TIMELINE clients.

Yvonne Hellin Hobbs began her career in film and television costume on the first series of Robin of Sherwood in the early 1980’s. For the past 25 years she has worked as wardrobe assistant, then wardrobe mistress, supervisor and assistant costume designer on films and TV productions including Batman, Lady Chatterley, The Fifth Element, Alien 3, Sense and Sensibility, D-Day 6-6-44, The Iceman Murder, Silent Witness and Supernatural, to name but a few. She is used to working in period settings, with period costumes and organising the dressing of large numbers of actors and extras.

During those years Yvonne has also run a business dealing in period kitchenalia and studied, achieving a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Humanities and a Master of Arts degree in History. In the last few years Yvonne has developed her writing skills and regularly contributes to homes and interiors magazines, finding suitably interesting homes, styling and setting up photo shoots then writing the copy.

 She is currently undertaking an MA in Museum Studies, to enable her to take a more hands on role in heritage exhibition, a field where TIMELINE will come into its own.

Between them Seimon and Yvonne, with their passion for history, authenticity and style, and their working knowledge of photography and film, feel that they have a unique package to offer anyone who needs images from the past, either moving or still, to enhance any project, large or small.