A.K. Mayr initiated his photography career at Sygma Photo News Agency in New York. Collaborating with artists like Richard Dailey and Hilton McConnico, and filmmakers Laurent Boutonnat and Mark Boswell, he notably co-created "The United Nations is Decadent and Depraved," a Kandinsky Prize nominee in 2010. In 2000, Mayr won the "Search for Art" competition by Mandarina Duck. He taught at Parsons School of Design in Paris from 1998 to 2007. Published in Esquire, The Economist, Ramp, Russian Riviera, Colta, his work exhibited across Europe and the United States.