" I was originally trained in photography at Carmarthen College of Art and on to be a cameraman for Cwmni Hon in Aberystwyth. I then worked for a period at the National Screen and Sound Archive before branching out as a photojournalist.

I worked as a cameraman for a variety of television programmes as well as in mainstream cinema. I have been involved in over twenty different documentaries for the History Channel as well as the BBC's Bafta nominated drama D-Day 6:6:44 and on a programme featuring the late Sir Kyffin Williams. My most memorable experiences were shooting scenes for the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks production of Band of Brothers.

I shoot on twenty year old medium format cameras and hardly ever uses Photoshop.

Although I have worked on images of conflict my own stance is very anti-war.

I have a love-hate relationship with this subject. There is no doubt that images of war are incredibly moving and can really hit you hard, look at photographs taken by Robert Capa, Lee Miller and George Stephens, for example, these photographers took some of the most powerful and striking pictures of all time.

Having spoken with many veterans, their personal accounts can be quite disturbing. I think almost all old soldiers are anti-war!

As a photographer for Armchair General magazine my foremost objective was to be sincere with my interpretation of war.

I wanted to capture the heightened emotion and drama of battle as realistically as possible, not a sanitised Hollywood version.

I often found the creation of some of my images very disturbing and emotional, but if I'm to tell a story about war, the reconstructions and images have to be painful and honest too.

Each image has a specific storyline connected with it and to me that is very important when choosing to create a scene.

I'd often work with scripts and would take a great deal of care to get the image set up and correct to the smallest of detail. Sometimes it would take days to get everything right and, of course, with outside shots you'd have to have the right weather too.

If not, we would recreate it! Amazingly, many locations in and around Aberystwyth have doubled up as the Russian flats, Normandy Beaches and the deserts of North Africa.

I have also been looking into the possibility of setting up a permanent base for my own collection of Second World War memorabilia.

I would love to have a permanent base in South Wales for my collection and share my enthusiasm with visitors.

Besides British people there are so many Americans who come to Wales looking for information about their relatives who came here during the War period.

I feel that this is a lost opportunity if there are no permanent displays in our national and regional museums relating to the war period.

The exhibition of photographs will also house a recent image taken I took to commemorate those who fought in the Great War. I set up a photoshoot in Ipswich recently where I was able to use trenches for the setting of this moving and poignant shot.

It is being shown for the first time at Ceredigion Museum and will be hung just before the official 90th Anniversary of the end of World War One on 11 November 2008.

My contract with Armchair General Magazine came to an end in July 2007. Since then I have has moved back to the Carmarthen area and I have recently teamed up with Yvonne Hellin Hobbs and launched a Historical Photographic company.

Article written by Seimon Pugh-Jones