It’s not the golden temples or postcard beaches that interest Billow926, a photographer from Qingdao, China, who has spent years returning to Thailand with his film camera to capture its less photographed side. Thailand on Film is the name of the project, an ever-growing archive born from multiple trips across the country, in which Thailand isn’t a backdrop but a living subject, made of everyday gestures and ordinary people.

His shots on 35mm keep returning to flower markets at dawn, train carriages, street vendors, the cats that populate the neighborhoods, temples seen not as monuments but as backdrops to daily life. It’s a Thailand caught sideways, often in motion, where the grain of the film and the slightly shifted colors give a sense of suspended time, closer to a travel diary than to reportage.

What stands out in these images is the attention to smaller details, a moped parked under a makeshift gazebo, a vegetable cart pushed along a sun-drenched street, a red plastic chair forgotten in a corner of a garden. Taken individually, these fragments might seem random, but together they make up the real subject of the project, atmosphere more than place.

Billow926 puts it plainly, his goal isn’t to document Thailand’s famous sights, but to offer a personal perspective on the country, made of people, details and moments that usually escape a tourist’s eye. The result is a body of work you can follow on VSCO and on Instagram, and one that keeps growing with every new trip.