Point of View - This photo shows us the world peeking just outside the door, from the perspective of a very tiny person for whom a doorstop ramp would be a life-size obstacle to overcome. This perspective also allows us to observe the heavily-scuffed and abused door, lending an edgy effect and mystery to "the outside world" according to this photo.
Balance - The right 2/3rds of the photo focuses on the reflection of the hallway and lockers on the outside, and consists of more colorful, diverse tones than the neutral-dark hallway on the interior. The expanse of light on the right side of the picture balances out the small, dark rectangle of void that the interior hallway fades into. Since the focus on the photograph is on the reflection, we do not need to see the entire original hallway for context--we get a glimpse of the original hallway and that provides all the necessary inference we need to make.
Subject/Background - Our eye is drawn to the shadow of the person and what we perceive to be the outline of their face, even though there's a hand rail in the literal foreground of the picture. Because we are more visually drawn to shapes that look like human beings, the hand rail becomes the figurative background of the photo and even though we notice it, it's not the feature of attention.
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