BuddyPress

It looks like the dev probably wrote it on Windows and it used upper case but when it went into the wordpress repo, it went in as all lower case. You have to change the case of the folders to BP-Group-Control for it to work. I didn’t want to just change the file in case [...]

I use bp-gallery from buddydev.com and have been working on something a little similar to the expanded profile page. Right now, I find gallery a little more suited to my needs because it supports audio, video, and photos. I’m not sure what other requirements you’d need for a photo plugin. Hope this helps.

I too was a big supporter of those plugins. Thankfully, I was able to convince someone to revive at least one of them. This might work for at least the photo part of your problem.

http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-flickr-plugin-allow-your-users-to-show-their-latest-flickr-images-on-their-buddypress-profile/

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I’ve been beta testing gallery and with a few of us, he’s really listened to a lot of feature requests and feedback. At buddydev.com, you can see screenshot but yes, I know gallery has full support for all media for groups. I would check it our before you make tour decision but I love it. [...]

There are two available that should fit your needs. 1. Buddydev’s BP Gallery which includes photos/video/audio and is in beta right now shortly to go stable at http://buddydev.com ( this is a premium plugin and access costs $30/3 months) 2. bp album which is just photos but is free. They’ve made big strides lately and [...]

I’m not sure if it hides activity, but I heard a trick to “hiding” admins from the member list was to change their status in the database of the user to “99″ and that prevents it from showing in the member’s list.