Published in 1971, Olele Olala is one of Kishin Shinoyama's earliest photobooks and a work closely linked to the atmosphere of visual experimentation and freedom that permeated Japanese photography in the late sixties and early seventies.
 
The book brings together photographs taken by Shinoyama during a journey through different parts of the world, particularly Europe and Brazil. Moving away from a conventional documentary approach, the photographer focuses on the body, sexuality, youth, spectacle and the energy of the street. Parades, carnivals, nudes and chance encounters follow one another in an exuberant sequence where the sense of movement is almost constant.
 
Olele Olala reveals a Shinoyama interested both in recording what he encounters and in experimenting with the photographic image itself. Extreme framing, dynamic compositions and deliberately intense editing turn the journey into a visual experience rather than a geographical narrative.
 
The result is an energetic and provocative photobook that reflects both Shinoyama's fascination with the body and popular culture and the spirit of an era marked by sexual liberation and the breaking of numerous social conventions. A publication particularly representative of the photographer's early work and a distinctive title among Japanese photobooks of the early seventies.