A Conversation with Sav Walker
The city is always talking. Most people just don’t stop long enough to hear it.
Sav Walker — also known as Iso Capital — is drawn to the stories hidden in plain sight. The quiet design of an urban environment that most people walk straight past. Boorloo/Perth, to Sav, isn’t just a place you live. It’s a conversation. A system. A set of clues.
For Flash. Issue 03 — a Project See & B × Jean Marie Film collaboration that gave twenty creatives second-hand film cameras and total freedom — Sav picked up a Canon Snappy EZ and turned their lens back onto the city they’ve been documenting for years.
The final work, crosssection, feels like a still moment pulled from the backbone of Boorloo. Something industrial, overlooked, almost accidental — but framed like it matters. Like it’s always mattered.
As Sav writes in their artist statement:
“corners, angels, lines / waiting & breathing for you”
Where did this project begin for you?
“I’ve always been inspired by the world around me, the stories hidden in the landscape. To me, everything is always talking if you look hard enough.
iso capital is a project thats been in the works for a long time. I’ve been taking photos of things I see for as long as I can remember, and I just thought maybe others would find it interesting too, so I made somewhere for it to be seen.”
Iso Capital isn’t a brand so much as a lens — a way of noticing.
How did you approach making the work?
“Documentary. The only ‘real’ art form, an artistic rendition of the truth. No set design, nothing disturbed, no edits. Just the way I see it.”
What were you hoping the work would hold?
“Isolation. Quiet. Something you would walk past and not think twice but is so beautiful it should be framed. The beauty in the mundane. Lines. Good design. Colour. Capitalism. Surveillance. Typography. The endless conversation of the city.”
How would you describe your practice?
Sav’s practice lives in observation — the kind that feels almost like eavesdropping. It’s photography as proof, but also photography as question. What does a city reveal when you stop looking at it like a backdrop?
Iso Capital plays with that double meaning too — ISO as camera language, and isolation as the condition of living in the “world’s most isolated city.”
“iso capital is a play on camera iso & isolation. Boorloo is the worlds most isolated city, or the capital of isolation if you will. Or capital, the backbone of the city, things to create wealth, buildings for people to pay rent in, streets for people to walk. Urban environments wouldn’t exist without the throws of capitalism.”
And then it sharpens.
“The constant watching of cameras from private businesses, the government, everyone with a phone. We are always being watched. Maybe I’m watching you.”
For this project, the work becomes “a new view of iso capital, through film.” Same obsession. Different texture. Grain instead of gloss.
What’s inspiring you creatively right now?
Sav’s inspirations read like a collage — culture, theory, small objects, late-night thoughts, and whatever’s glowing in the corner of the room.
“Pulch magazine. John Berger. Mallrat. ibis birds. a good 4am conversation with my housemate. the local drag scene. Parkside coffee. anti-ai sentiment. the colour yellow. the last unbroken mug in a set my mum gave me when I moved out. angel numbers. shitty tattoos. collaboration. the c/s/x movement. the sunrise. a redbull & a cigarette. splendid fairy wrens. Lorde’s 4th studio album Virgin.”
What’s next?
“This piece is just a new view of iso capital, through film.”
You can keep up with their work on Instagram @iso.capital.
Flash. — Exhibition & Issue 03 Launch
Flash. Issue 03 One-week-only exhibition:
19 — 25 January 2026
10am to 4pm daily
Terrace Greenhouse Gallery
223 South Terrace, South Fremantle, WA
Free entry
Project See & B is dedicated to amplifying under-represented voices in the creative industry. Issue 03 was made possible thanks to the support of The Blackbird Foundation.
