Lost all pictures and videos after iso6 update !!

I lost all my photos after ios6.1.4 update. How do I get them back, I didn't have them checked on iCloud or iTunes !!

For what completely insane reason would someone attempt an iOS updare (or any operating system update) without first ensuring all their media and other important data was backed up?
Pictures taken with the iPhone are designed to be regularly copied off to a computer. Apple even provides PhotoStream to sync them to multiple other devices as well as including them in the backup done via iTunes or iCloud.
If you elected to not take advantage of the multiple ways of saving the date before updating iOS and it is now lost, tough luck.

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