Neda - Green Revolution

Neda Agha-Soltan was killed during protests on June the 20th 2009 and became a rallying symbol for the Green Revolution in Iran.

This is a revamped version of a similar attempt I made earlier. A friend of mine accused me of sapping the power and meaning of the original picture by making into a abstract and romanticized icon. In fact, he said it was a kind of censorship and argued the picture could very well be a Ipod commercial.

Me, I think the picture of her bleeding to death, as morbid it may be, will remain a symbol even through a proccess of editing. A lot of Neda tributes have appeared on deviantart and the rest of the internet, and most either use a a gory picture of her dying or facebook-like image of her alive. I wanted to keep some of the power of the image of her dying, but make it less brutal, hence my result.

Please critique or comment.