This article attempts to address an edge of worked problems in my doctoral thesis, in which I discussed the processes of self-referential photographic repertoires as a particular visual mode of subjective experience, crystallized in pictures and stories. Research articulated photography workshops in three very different contexts and social groups: with male inmates at a Penitentiary Unit in José León Suárez (Buenos Aires); with old women at a Social Library in Anisacate (Córdoba hills, Argentina) and with teenagers at the Trade Employees Labor Unit School in Buenos Aires, in order to look at how subjects in various social frames related with photographic images. Throughout the article we will recover some ethnographic passages from these workshops that seek to account the links between photographic image and temporality in the particular subjective experience of these actors.