Use the telephoto end of your zoom lens to compress the space in between elements to emphasize the repetition and to isolate your subjects. In smartphone cameras, use the portrait lens or telephoto lens if available. That’s the technique that I used in this...
Here’s a group street portrait of the Antigua Guatemala town criers, Pregoneros in Spanish, right before they started their work of spreading the news. Not often you make portraits of people dressed up in XVI century attires, right?