I was lucky enough to interview Barrie Schwortz on two separate occasions before he died in 2024. Barrie was a kind man. After the interviews we stayed on talking for nearly an hour combined and I found him extremely congenial and down-to-earth. May he rest in peace. 

Barrie 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. He played 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 served as the President of STERA, Inc.

Here is the first interview I did with him. 

You can visit Barrie's website here: https://www.shroud.com/

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