Let’s address the elephant in the room. Calling one photographer "better" is subjective. However, in the context of , "better" refers to authenticity .
The photo book Kingpouge Laika is a collaborative project by renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Saimon Let’s address the elephant in the room
Hiromi Saimon is often described as a "photographer’s photographer." Operating out of the shadows of Tokyo’s golden-era street photography, Saimon is known for using obsolete tools like the Laika 12 to document transient moments—a woman adjusting her collar in the rain, a child’s shadow stretching across a Showa-era alleyway, the condensation on a windowpane at 3 AM. in the context of