Doc White / Floating home, Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil, June 2012

Doc White / Children using the floating local store for lessons after their school flooded, Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil, June 2012

Doc White / Photographer Doc White relaxing in a hammock on a floating house on the Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil, June 2012

Doc White / Children using a laptop on a floating house on the Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil, June 2012

Doc White / Local wildlife guide Hugo Hoyos on board a floating home on the Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil, June 2012. Model released.

Doc White / Floating house doubling as a small store for the locals selling produce, oil and gasoline on the Rio Negro. Amazonia, Brazil, June 2012

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Tug towing house barge along River Roach, Wallasea Island, Essex, UK, February 2011

Juergen Freund / West Papuan fisherman paddling in a traditional outrigger house boat. Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, February 2010.

Juergen Freund / West Papuan fishermen in their outrigger house boat. Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, February 2010.

Toby Roxburgh / Bristol marina, on Bristol's floating Harbour, England, April 2010.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Reflections of houseboats on lake. Nagin, Kashmir, India, 1986.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Shikaras for hire on Dal Lake at Srinagar, Kashmir, India, 1986.