find_package(VTK REQUIRED COMPONENTS CommonCore GUISupportQt NO_MODULE) prints messages that PNG, TIFF, JPEG were found
VTK's cmake scripts cause the following lookups:
-- Found PNG: /usr/local/lib/libpng.so (found version "1.6.40")
-- Found JPEG: /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so (found version "80")
-- Found TIFF: /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so (found version "4.4.0")
The project that uses VTK looks up these libraries, but then it never uses them: binaries aren't linked with them.
If VTK needs to be linked with these libraries - it should perform these lookups during its own configure time, and link VTK binaries with these libraries.