Digital BW, The Print

Any fine art photographers successful in getting digital prints accepted for
sale in galleries, high end art fairs, etc? Strange, I can make a
"perfected" negative, could use for contact printing forty+ Silver prints in
an afternoon, and these would be considered hand made original prints.  The
fact is that digital prints, no matter how excellent the image or the
printing, are somehow considered mechanical "reproductions" with relatively
little value.  This fact, taken with the continuous print improvements
discussed in this forum, make me feel that we are in the midst of a major
and irreversible change in the way photographic prints are perceived by the
buying public, a change which will probably not be beneficial to those of us
who sell prints.  Any thoughts?