Since the emergence of photography in the 19th century, technical image is known to have provided compositional reasons for printmakers’ creation processes. This article addresses relations between photography and printmaking in the works of certain contemporary artists. The photograph as a record of a light snapshot, spatial landscape structures, body memories, among others is found in the works of artists such as Alex Flemming, Claudio Mubarac, Lurdi Blauth, Marco Buti, Maristela Salvatori, Miriam Tolpolar, and Regina Silveira. The study seeks to show how photography-based prints may or may not retain evidence of photographic codes.