Mitra Tabizian is a professor, filmmaker, and a photographer so she has a trained eye and a creative mind and pays close attention to composition and content. The picture above is one of her most famous photographs. This is a staged photograph meaning that she had control over the composition. She directed everybody’s placement, movement, and attitude. The composition of all the aspects that she added into this photo that are western and Iranian build the content and tell a story. As you read the photo from left to right, the more western the photo gets to show the changing times. She used her film making skills to take this wide angle picture to fit the whole scene.
https://unframed.lacma.org/2014/05/02/new-acquisition-mitra-tabrizian-tehran-2006