Photography is part of printmaking since its birth. It is indeed hard to even imagine contemporary printmaking without the marriage of photography with the hand made print.
Printmaking is a form of expression in progress.
The visual arts have traditionally defined their genres in convergence with the technology of each genre. Today, artists are challenged with alternatives and options of processing ideas, combining techniques, presenting and distributing works of art in ways never existing before. Artist may have to alter their ways of working. Artists even may want it. Contemporary art strategies, ranging from digital imaging to architectural modes of representation reflects the construction of our environment by pervasive physicality, marketing by aesthetisation, cultural industries, cultural events, sites and institutions.