How to move iPhoto photos from MBP to External hard drive

I have a mac book pro on OS X 20.8.5
Start up disc is completely full. Trying to make space
I have Iphoto 11
I just bought from Apple a 1Terabyte G Drive 3.0 External Hardrive to move files onto
How can I move all my iPhoto photos (22,000 photos!) onto my external hard drive making room on my computer?

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229?viewlocale=en_US

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