Michael Tarr

A self-employed business executive and semiotics investigator, Michael Tarr currently heads an effort to educate the public about global issues such as poverty, disease, war, and environmental destruction. His studies in the field of visual communications have led him to question how the barrage of information available in the 21st century affects the mind. He concludes that the volume of information available is so overwhelming that the human conscience often avoids grappling with large-scale, distressing issues. Michael Tarr, however, aims to communicate such issues at an understandable level through the endeavor known as Memoirs.

Recently, he has begun addressing the issue of homelessness. From his decades of research in the field, he discovered that the link between poverty and homelessness has rapidly increased since 1975. Through Memoirs, he presents the public with a visual understanding of that history, showing the development of homelessness throughout the last four decades with photographs of people experiencing poverty, but still living with dignity. Michael Tarr also hopes to stimulate efforts to counter this trend of homelessness by demonstrating the benefits of eliminating it for society as a whole.