On 16 March Kadir van Lohuizen started his road trip in Puerto Toro, Southern Chile. He'll be travelling the Pan-American Highway for 40 weeks, looking for people and stories along the way and uploading them to his iPad app, Via PanAm.

Available for $3.99 or 2.99 Euros in the App Store, Via PanAm combines blogs, photo series, video and background research on the countries van Lohuizen visits, updating along the way as the photographer makes the 28,000km journey. The app already contains eight reports made in Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia, where van Lohuizen photographed Mapuche indians fighting to reclaim their land; the official opening of mines into newly-discovered lithium reserves in the salt lake of Uyuni; and illegal gold mining in the Amazonas.

van Lohuizen, a member of the prestigious NOOR agency, partnered up with Paradox, a not-for-profit production specialist, to create the app, which will be available in Spanish, English and Dutch. "I'm not sure now is the time to publish books any more," van Lohuizen told BJP back in August last year. "We have to question who we're publishing them for. I want to throw everything open to question."

NOOR and Paradox will give a live presentation of the app at Les Rencontres d'Arles on 08 July at 05pm, at the Dirk Bakker book stand in Le Village, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France. For more information, visit the Via PanAm blog at www.viapanam.org/blog.