Career
He was the second son among seven children of Manindranath and Provabati Sengupta. He was the Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Photography (FIP), the Indian chapter of the Fédération Internationale de l"Art Photographique (Fellowship of Indian Academy of Pediatrics), and President of the Photographic Association of Dum Dum (PAD). In his book,"History of Journalism: A Legend of Glory", Professor
Santanu Banerjee mentioned, "His passion was to guide the oncoming photographers in the profession.
During his life span, he made a pretty number of students dazzled in the arena of photography."
A Photography Unit was set up in the Indian Museum in 1964 for photo documentation of art objects. Senator was the in-charge of the unit
He retired from the museum as Photo Officer in 1990 and contributed many photographic works both in the field of social & cultural anthropology and museum related photographs. Senator was undergoing treatment at a private hospital treatment at Barasat near Kolkata, from 7 to 15 April 2011, as he had been suffering from retention of urine due to prostate enlargement and low haemoglobin count due to his previous heart problem with diabetes mellitus.
He was under treatment by Doctor Barun kumar Sinha, a urologist.
Doctor Sinha suggested for a surgery of the prostate gland as the earliest. On the evening of 19 April 2011 Benu Senator was readmitted to the previous hospital at Barasat, for a pre-surgical preparation of prostate gland
surgery. Some physiological problems have been developed due to his old age.
On 16 May 2011 Senator suffered form a serious chest infection, leading to the deterioration of his health and he was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (Intensive Care Unit).
He was under treatment by several doctors, led by Doctor Jawaharlal Banerjee. On 17 May 2011 he died at 12–15 India Standard Time at Barasat.
