In Toshio Shibata's long-awaited first monograph, Day For Night, a series of images capture the legendary photographer's movement from night to day. The structural concept is seemingly simple: a progression through a sequence of nighttime photographs into a set of images made in the day, but – as always with Shibata – nothing is as straightforward as it first appears.

Intense light sources, both indoor and outdoor, make the nocturnal scenes even stranger than they would be if enveloped in darkness. As for the daylight pictures, heavy masses of constructed earth and stone serve to ground us in a world that is anything but bright and airy. And in the pivot between day and night lies a foreboding tunnel that subsumes both the luminous and the murky.

The name of the book references a technique Shibata knew of since his childhood, watching the television series Rawhide – a technique that creates the optic illusion of night in a day image. Day For Night offers multiple layers of interpretation and introspection for both the viewers and for Shibata himself. "It even feels like some kind of destiny," he says of the book. "I knew that technique since my childhood, but until now I’d never seen my own work with such an eye."

Day For Night is published by Deadbeat Club.