Reportage and photojournalism often overlaps with the ontological point of view, however, a distinction, while subtle, exists and De Paz has the well tagged with these words:

"There is a subtle distinction between two terms that normally overlap to merge: reportage and photojournalism. In the first, "the photographer merely repeats some fragments of reality with precise meanings (subjective, social, political, ethnological ...) in the second show more desire to tell, through images, a story whose semantic values mainly historical, social, policies."

Street photography with these two important genera have common the presence of human languages, and provide photographic major impact on both songs tell of life, to freeze moments of humanity.

Today, these photographic genres are somewhat 'neglected by amateurs, either because it has become very difficult to photograph people because of perverse privacy statements, either to the fact that fear of terrorist attacks involves many restrictions, often totally unjustified, if not even ridiculous