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Barrie Schwortz was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research
Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud
in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and
founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website (www.shroud.com), the
oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen
million visitors from over 160 countries. In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and
Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, to which he
donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other
important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them
available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, Inc.