capa, soltan, and the shots heard around the world

PDNPulse went and drew a parallel I was waiting for someone to draw — the video of young Neda Soltan and Robert Capa’s famous photo, “The Falling Soldier,” taken during the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

On Saturday, a shocking video of a young woman bleeding to death appeared on social networking sites.

Anonymous and impossible to trace, the clip went viral with a story attached: The woman is Neda, an opposition protester in Iran, who was gunned down by a government sniper Saturday on the streets of