New Tools to Tell an Ancient Story

Migration along the Pan-American Highway is the focus of Kadir Van Lohuizen’s app, Vía PanAm.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/new-tools-to-tell-an-ancient-story/

His trek alone is noteworthy. The photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen is spending 40 weeks traveling up the Pan-American Highway from Chile to Alaska.

So is his reporting medium: a $3.99 multimedia app, Vía PanAm, through which Mr. Van Lohuizen files his blog dispatches, videos, audio tracks and photographs.