She grew up in London, where she completed an honors bachelor's degree in fine art and went on to work in film and television. She has worked as a photographer for arts organizations such as Artangel and the Serpentine Gallery and on numerous films and documentaries, including Michael Winterbottom's "In This World." Taghizadeh's work deals with personal and cultural identity, as in "Make-Up, Iran," a long-term project dealing with women living in Iran and their relationship to makeup and its rituals. She is also working on "Mother," a series of portraits of mothers without their children.