San-Zhr Pod Village, Danshui, Taiwan by Magda Biernat

Globe-trotter Magda Biernat spent one year photographing where people live in seventeen countries. A peek at her website reveals a keen interest in structures; she also freelances for architecture firms and design studios. While her images are void of actual people, her perspective is more personable, not to mention colorful than, say, the Bechers, deviating a bit from the typographic vernacular. She writes:

Guided by an interest in urbanism and habitation, I focus my work on the built environment and its influence on global societies... The core vision was to recognize the integrity of the way people live under different, in many cases, extraordinary conditions.

Before embarking on her trip around the world, Biernat worked for Magnum Photos giving her lots of exposure to photojournalism and also an apt departure point for exploring her own work.
She maintains a pretty straightforward point of view but the light surrounding each home varies, revealing more of the place in which she was photographing. Fog shrouds the pod villages in Taiwan and long shadows and blue skies stretch over Tipi Resort in Namibia. The weather starts to inform the places people live as well.