How can I back up photos from iPhoto using terminal?

Can I backup my photos from iPhoto using terminal or any other way(to a portable hard drive) as I have turned my laptop on and it has came to a screen giving me the option to back up from time machine, reinstall IOS or clean my drives, but neither are working so I believe I am going to have to erase my whole hard drive and potentially get a new one, but my only problem is that I haven't backed up my iPhoto images before so is there anyway I can do this?

You are booted from Recovery Drive. Have you tried restarting so you boot normally?
See these articles for using terminal to move
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/80316/how-can-i-use-terminal-to-copy-al l-files-of-a-certain-type-from-a-failing-hard-d
http://macmost.com/using-terminal-to-copy-files.html
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