Lost or hidden photos in iPhoto 9.4.2

Recently I lost a small group of photos I downloaded to iPhoto. There was 20 photos and a couple of small video streams. I filled up the 16GB card while shooting. Took the card from the camera and added another card and continued shooting. Later I put the 16 GB card in my MacBook Air which has about 10 GB of space left on the flash drive and downloaded the photos. I am traveling at the moment and did not have a back up external HD with me. I disconnected the card and then reviewed and edited the photos in iPhoto. Later I showed a couple of the photos to family. This morning the photos are gone or hidden. In events there is a thumbnail reflecting the date I downloaded. The thumbnail cover photo is a grey silhouette palm tree with no photos in this event album. I reconnected the card and the photos are no longer on the card. I don't know what happened. Is there any way I can retrieve these photos.

At no point did I download 16 GB of information onto a drive with 10 GB of space. I guess I wasn't clear in my original note and question. There was about 10 GB of space on my MacBook Air. Yesterday I downloaded about 20 photos in JPEG format and a few videos, 30 sec to 1 minute in length, that I took that day, from a card that was full. What's that, at max a couple of GB.
Later I downloaded another 1 or 2 GB of photos and video from a new unfilled 16 GB card. At that point I had about 6 GB of available space on the flash drive of my MacBook.
Then, after the 2 downloads I edited photos in the 2 event folders. When I was finished I showed my family a few photos from the first download from the full card. At some point the photos from the first download disappeared in iPhoto. The folder from the first download in iPhoto is still there but with a thumbnail grey silhouette palm tree but no photos. This morning I inserted the full memory card which is a Sansdisk Ultra Extreme. The rest of the information on the full 16GB card is still there but the 20 photos from yesterday are missing.
I am looking for a little help here from someone who will read each line of the email thread and give me some suggestions on what may have happened and what I can do in an attempt to recover the photos.
I just looked there is currently 8.25 GB of available space.

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