Career
Early in his career, Mayo worked with many different directors, on less well-known films. 1991 he filmed for Pedro Almodóvar"s Tacones lejanos (High Heels). The two worked together again on Kika (1993).
At this time he also started to film for Marcelo Piñeyro, for Caballos Salvajes.
Mayo went on to be the cinematographer with whom Piñeyro worked in all films that he directed alone (ie except Historias de Argentina en vivo), including the critically well-received Plata quemada (2000) and Further collaborations were with director Gerardo Herrero, for whom Mayo filmed all ten films that Herrero made from 1994 until 2006, when Mayo made his last film as of October 2007.
Mayo also worked with Fernando León de Aranoa on three occasions (Barrio in 1998, Familia in 1996, and award-winning Los lunes al sol in 2002). Antigua vida mía (2001) aka Antigua, My.
