Lost ALL photos when backing up!

Hi,
So my boss got the new iphone 4s. We backed up his iphone 4 (which he had never done before) to his macbook pro, and let it run until it prompted us to disconnect. During that time it asked if we wanted to sync all music, contacts, etc and we chose yes.
He then cleared out his phone to give it to a friend.
He then plugged in his new phone and connected it to his itunes to upload everything. When he finished, he realized his photos are nowhere to be found. They are not in iphoto, they are not on his iphone 4s. HELP! Is there anywhere they could be?

hi all,
after losing access to iphone camera and iphoto when downloading upgrade of camera zoom 2, i just remembered to power off and restart the phone and everything is now back...

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