airfrogusmc - I could also dodge and burn in Lightroom, but it's not the same: "pulling that area up" would still give a much more uniform tone, even with applying maximum Clarity and Contrast; similarly, burning in the the highlight corner above the subject's head does not give rougher, organic texture that SEFEX produces, nor does this produce similar "rougher" tonal effects throughout the frame — not to speak of the fact that SEFEX does all this organically: using PS or LR would mean burning and dodging areas all over, which you would have to visualize in advance and still not achieve the effects that SEFEX puts in throughout the frame. For example, the slightly lighter tone triangle between the subject's legs would have to be dodged in LR, while SEFEX does that; another example is the darker tone in the white-painted cinder blocks to the right of the doorway, which is also the result of SEFEX: this would also have to be dodged.
The closest I could come using LR was applying the VSCO Film preset [L - Ilford Delta 3200 -] as a staring point and then changing Contrast and Clarity, but it's still far off from what SEFEX does. My conclusion becomes obvious once a user has tried working with SEFEX extensively.