Recent photos

Albums in Photos are like playlists in iTunes. You can have an audio track in multi playlists and only once in the iTunes library. Same for photos.

Ldiablo wrote:

I have over 5000 photos I’m trying to create a folders to separated but all I’m doing is making copies they don’t come off the “recent” photos is there any way doing this

No. Photos you put in folder or album points back to those photos, it doesn't move it there.