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