I think photos gives you the choice of uploading into generic member galleries (just a straight upload) or you go into your personal album and upload it there into your own created space; it's two places, only one of which you control the whole of. Go into your personal album and upload to there if you want it in your personal album. I don't believe they are "connected" but I think you can delete what you have uploaded in either place if you only want it in one. What you upload in the galleries I think anyone can see, what you upload in your album, you can set who can see.