The Book of Mev

About this book

The Book of Mev is the story of Mev Puleo an American photojournalist and young Catholic who actively confronted a world of injustice poverty and violence. From witnessing homelessness in the United States to struggles for social change in Haiti El Salvador and Brazil Puleo used photography and interviews to be a bridge between poverty and affluence the First World and the Third World. Puleos familiarity with suffering however was dramatically intensified when she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at the age of thirty-one. She died twenty-one months later.