Frieze week highlights: William Eggleston’s eagle eye
Lucy Waterson, Apollo
October 2026
With hundreds of exhibitions and events vying for attention in London during Frieze week, Apollo’s editors pick out the shows they don’t want to miss.
William Eggleston is a man of few words but his photographs speak for themselves. From sensitive portraits taken on Memphis streets in the 1960s and ’70s to eerie interiors of roadside diners, Eggleston’s pictures find meanings that might have been missed by anyone else. This sentiment is at the heart of ‘William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed’ at the Photographer’s Gallery, an exhibition of both familiar and rarely seen works timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the artist’s influential solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (14 October–21 February 2027).
Graham Little first picked up a copy of Vogue as a child; its glossy photography later became central to how the Scottish painter works, with Little transplanting the figures and poses of fashion photography into his own carefully composed vignettes. At Alison Jacques, Little shifts away from a longstanding focus on the figure, instead allowing it to fade into the background of domestic scenes and still lifes imbued with a sense of distortion and unease (9 October–14 November). […]