Shangtuf Image and Art club is a regional individual member of International Federation of Photographic Art (FlAP), China chapter of Royal Photographic Society(RPS), Global Photographic Union (GPU) coordinator office, and also liaison office of Photographic Society of New York (PSNY) in Zhejiang, China. It is one of the most  well-established photo clubs in China,  and is dedicated to collaboration and communication of photographic art with international photo communities.

Up to May 31 2019, the number of Shangtuf members' images accepted by international competitions reaches a historical high as 173,904, among which 9,542 images were awarded. At the meantime, Shangtuf was honored with hundreds of group awards for its effort to organize members to participate in competitions from France, Italy, Ukraine, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, etc.

Worth mentioning is that Shangtuf has won for 11 consecutive times as excellent club at Trierenberg Super Circuit. Apart from photo competitions, Shangtuf also takes an active part to introduce outstanding  photographic works from Chinese and overseas photographers at photo festivals in China, such as Shanghai, Pingyao, Yixian, Lishui, Dali. Curated exhibition has won Pegus award, top curatorial  award in China.  Besides, Shangtuf also organizes photographic exchange programs with partners in US, Germany, Ukraine, South Africa, Poland, Morocco, UAE, Oman and dozens of other countries, which played a positive role in promoting bilateral exchanges between China and the international photographic art field.