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This colour Polaroid print forms part of a photographic series of children's writers, for which Sulter was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery for their 2001 exhibition 'Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers'. Jamila Gavin was born in 1941 in Mussoorie, India to an Indian father and an English mother, who met as teachers in Iran and married in Mumbai, and Jamila grew up in harmony with her Indian and English cultures. Educated in England where her family settled, she trained as a music student at Trinity College of Music, London and continued to study in Paris and Berlin. She joined the BBC as a Studio Manager in radio and then as a Production Assistant and Director in Music and Arts Programmes in television.