Lost all pictures in iPhoto.....where are the pictures?

My MacBook is new to me and I have put hundreds of pictures in iPhoto. I opened my computer one day and all photos in iPhoto are gone. Where are the picture and how are they returned to iPhoto?

Sorry with that amount of information no one can even guess
What version of iPhoto? Of the OS? what happens when you launch iPhoto? What changes did you make just before this occured - new software - disk clean up ???
LN

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Fix #3
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