A.K. Mayr began his photographic career in Sygma photo news agency in New York. He collaborated on film projects with American artists Richard Dailey and Hilton McConnico (Hope, 1999), and film-makers Laurent Boutonnat and Mark Boswell. Mayr and Boswell had a number of project together, the most notorious being "The United Nations is Decadent and Depraved", nominated in 2010 for the Kandinsky Prize. In 2000 Mayr became one of the winners of prestigious "Search for Art" art competition, organized by the Italian fashion house Mandarina Duck. Mayr's work was lagely published by magazines like Esquire, The Economist, Ramp, Russian Riviera, Colta, etc.