Bijon Sarkar left home for Dhaka after his parents died and his ancestral land was lost in river erosion.
His first professional training in photography was while he participated in the workshop conducted by photographer Manzoor Alam Beg in 1961.
The television authority sacked him after the War of Independence began in 1971, forcing Sarkar to take refuge in India.
After liberation Bijon Sarkar joined Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation as a Chief Photographer in 1972.
With a penchant for experimentation, Sarkar's photograms of the sixties were remarkable not only for the nature of the work, but because it happened in Pakistan, in complete isolation.
Bijon Sarkar received the Chobi Mela International Photography Festival VII lifetime achievement award in 2013.
[4] He had been undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of City Hospital in Dhaka.