Jenny Smets is an independent curator of photography exhibitions, educator, consultant and photo editor. She was the curator for the exhibition on Privacy (2015) for FOTODOK, a place dedicated to documentary photography in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She also co-curated the exhibitions There is Something about My Family (2016) and the show on religion, Believe (2016), as well as (Re)Inventing Nature and Beyond Us and Them (2017). For Photoville in New York she curated the exhibitions of Robin de Puy and Jan Hoek.

Jenny studied history of modern and contemporary art at UVA University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and majored in the history of photography. Her interest in digital storytelling made Jenny one of the partners of PhotoStories, an international conference on digital storytelling for photographers and filmmakers. Jenny trains photojournalists in different parts of the world. She is a Project Advisor on contemporary photography and advisor for the Joop Swart Masterclass of World Press Photo foundation. She teaches at the KABK Art Academy in The Hague, the Netherlands.