Shinoyama graduated from Nihon University. He worked with the Light Publicity agency while still a student, and freelanced after graduation.
Shinoyama has put out a large number of books of photographs of girls, dressed, mostly undressed, and nude.
On November 10, 2009 Shinoyama's home and office were searched by police on suspicion of public indecency. The searches stemmed from concerns regarding nude photos he allegedly took in public of two women in August 2008 for his book 20XX TOKYO.
He is married to Saori Minami and their son is actor Akinobu Shinoyama.
/ Sir John Soane's Museum. Tokyo: Rokuy?sha, 1989. ISBN 9784897370118. Text by Arata Isozaki. A detailed study of Sir John Soane's Museum (London).
Santa Fe. Tokyo: Asahi Shuppansha, 1991. ISBN 4255910464. Rie Miyazawa, nude. (See Santa Fe.)
The Painter's House: Balthus at the Grand Chalet. Te Neues, 2000. ISBN 978-3823854722. Photographs of the extraordinarily large house of the Balthus family, and Balthus himself, his wife and their daughter.
Kissin' My Puppy. Tokyo: Rasukaru, 2005. ISBN 978-4902388053. Japan's and their dogs. The minimal text is in Japanese.
Shinoyama Kishin at Tokyo Disney Resort. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008. ISBN 978-4063397581. Commemorative collection of photographs taken at Tokyo Disney Resort theme park for its 25th Anniversary celebrations.
Other books showing Shinoyama's works
Nihon n?do meisakush? (, Japanese nudes). Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp.24–25, 222–27 show nudes by Shinoyama.
Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hy?gen () / Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. Pp.124–29 show nudes by Shinoyama.