How to search all my files?

Will someone tell me how I can search for all of the photos on my laptop through finder? I recently discovered a huge bug with my iphoto, where pictures were not actually being deleted from my computer. So now have hidden files shown and was able to find said files, and delete them. Now that I know there were photos I did not want saved, I want to see a finder page with EVERY photo on my mac. If I search "all images" it shows 200 images, I know there thousands of photos saved on my mac. I want to see every single one of them. On previous versions of OSX I think I just had to click "search system files" or "include hidden files" or somthing along those lines...
I want, a page, in finder, with every photo on my mac, so I can see what else is lingering here (I use my phone to "scan" confidential documents sometimes).
does anyone know how I would accomplish this?

I am doing it exactly as you have shown. the whole issue arose because I was unable to see files in my finder that were showing up in my spotlight. The second line of this terminal window shows an example of what I mean. See how the files are not displayed in finder?
so I found the culprit files by using the command:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
and restarting terminal.
Now I want to see what other files I thought were deleted still remaing on my computer. searching just "jpg" as you described is not showing my all of the jpgs, it doesn't even show me all of the non-hidden jpg files, let alone ALL of them, which is what I want...

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