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Time Out NewYork (TONY) has an article about local kids who have been involved in a photography project around Harlem. The kids have been armed with digital cameras and set loose around the neighborhood to take their best shot. The photo exhibit can be seen at Big Apple Jazz located on Lenox Avenue. Read the article after the jump.

With new restaurants, luxury apartment complexes and children’s stores popping up, Harlem’s arguably in the midst of another renaissance. The neighborhood’s always been rich with culture, though, and aspects of that abundance will intersect in a compellingly cool way this week. Students in the Digital Literacy program at the Harlem Renaissance School have been going on walkabouts and snapping digital pictures all semester long. Their distinctive portraits of Harlem’s people and places are on currently on display at Big Apple Jazz, a newly-minted multipurpose space that hosts free jazz performances every day. Visitors to the venue will get a unique chance to soak in Harlem’s storied musical past, while viewing images of its present taken talented future stars. If one of the students winds becoming the next Herb Ritts or Annie Leibowitz, you can say you saw them first. –Evan Narcisse

Source: TONY