Resumen de Photochemistry and Pinhole Photography:: An Interdisciplinary Experiment

Angeliki A. Rigos, Kevin Salemme

• This interdisciplinary activity combines chemistry and art through the construction and use of a pinhole camera. We focused on the chemistry of the black and white photographic process as the science component of this activity. The reactions involved are good examples o photochemistry and multiphase chemical reactions, since the light sensitive materials (silver halides) are in the form of a gelatin emulsion of microscopic crystals.