They all are photojournalists and showing their aspect of the things they saw and photographed. Their point was the same, but the approach was different. Smith and Salgado for example were the type of the photographers that would spend time with the people they would photograph. They believed that if they got to know them better, they would learn their true struggles, suffering, their way of life and also their strength. They planned on how the picture was to be taken and they interfered with the objects in the photograph. Smith and Salgado altered their photographs, they added ‘drama’ effects to their pictures, like playing with the brightness, lighting, composing the people and the ambient before taking the picture. That way they interfered with the actual real reality.

On the other hand, for Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson we might say that in this particular aspect they were absolutely the opposite of each other. Kartesz and Cartier-Bresson believed that the photographer has to be absolutely unnoticed, invisible, in order to take the real picture. They believed that way they would capture the moment, as they saw it, as an unknown, as the world would see them, and not as somebody who lives among them.