The American Society of Picture Professionals has selected Barbara Smetzer as its 2010 Jane Kinne Picture Professional of the Year. Award recipients are current ASPP members who have established significant contributions to photography, made a single outstanding achievement or provided continuing service to ASPP and its members. The award was renamed in 2007 in memory of longtime picture-industry member Jane Kinne.
Smetzer has worked in the stock image business since the mid 1970s. She and her husband began with Smetzer Stock Photos, formed Click/Chicago with Brian Seed, sold it to Tony Stone, which was later acquired by Getty Images. Smetzer stayed don as director of editorial services, leving Getty in 1999 but continuing to run TravelUSA Stock Photos with her husband from Chicago.