[1] After fleeing his native Czechoslovakia in 1980, he became a British citizen and worked as the Royal Shakespeare Company's house photographer as well as in numerous other theatres in the United Kingdom until his death in 2004.
[1] He was not allowed to enter university on account of his father being imprisoned, subsequently becoming a professional photographer and taking photos of political prisoners and dissidents in Czechoslovakia.
[2] His photography involved shooting on location at prisons and courts, and using hidden cameras for close objects, as well as telephoto lenses for things he could not approach.
[1] His parents were Jiřina Kynclová, who survived him, and writer Karel Kyncl [cs], a Charter 77 signatory, who died in 1997.
[5] In 2019 his work went on display for four months at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in an exhibition entitled Ivan Kyncl: In the Minute.