HELP PLEASE !!! Lost all data (contacts,photos,etc etc) after restoring iphone 4

My girlfriend trusted me to update her iphone to ios 6 (silly girl) and alhough thats been installed I have managed to erase all her contacts, photos etc etc.
The process started off smoothly. After connecting to itunes it found automatically that it needed an update to ios 6 and this started. After a couple of hours the process bar seemed stuck. This is where I think I made the fatal mistake. I disconnected the phone. Im assuming it was during this long process that a back up was taking place. She had more than 2000 photos on it.
So after disconnecting and reconnecting the only option I recieved was to restore phone which I chose. After completion it was the same as setting up the phone for first use. Please note that no back ups were made before this (dumb ***, I know). The only back up I am guessing was the 2 hours before I disconnected the phone.
Is there a way of getting these photos back or are they gone forever. Even if it involves paying a professional to do it I am willing to do so because of the sentimental value of the photos.
Any help greatly appreciated.

She should have been importing all pics taken with the iphone regularly as with any digital camera, most especially before any update/restore/etc.
If she has failed to do this, then they are gone.

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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
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