Anne Golaz’s *La Casa Isla*, published by MACK in 2025, takes its point of departure from an island off the coast of Chile associated with the story of Robinson Crusoe. Golaz visited the island with filmmaker Stéphane Goël during the production of his 2018 documentary *Insulaire*, but the book is not a straightforward record of that encounter. It develops instead as a layered work in which documentary observation and fiction remain deliberately intertwined.

The island appears as a place of contradictory possibilities: a refuge and a promise of transformation, yet also a site of confinement, distance, and isolation. Golaz’s sequence moves between photographs, watercolour illustrations, sketchbook pages, prose, and poetry. These materials do not simply illustrate one another; they produce an unsettled, textured language in which memory, mortality, exile, and grief are held in productive tension. The narrator’s reflections give the landscape a psychological and literary charge, while the book’s engagement with cinema asks how images and stories shape the places we think we know.

This combination of forms is the book’s distinctive achievement. Rather than treating photography as a transparent witness, *La Casa Isla* considers how observation becomes narrative, and how narrative can both clarify and distort experience. Its movement from close sensory attention to a broader meditation on art and its purposes gives the work a scope beyond its specific geography. The island remains concrete, but also becomes a testing ground for questions of belonging, loss, and the desire for elsewhere.

For collectors, the book merits attention as a substantial artist’s publication whose meaning resides in the relationship between its varied elements and its carefully constructed sequence. The 160-page paperback includes a booklet containing French translations of all texts, extending the work’s bilingual dimension. Golaz’s meeting of photographic, literary, drawn, and cinematic influences makes *La Casa Isla* a considered contribution to contemporary photobook practice rather than a conventional travel or documentary volume.