My event/album of photos is gone

I have been working with a certain album of photos for weeks in iPhoto. Today I opened iPhoto & the photos are completely gone. The event is gone. I recently did the update to iPhoto 9.1.5. Any thoughts? I am at a loss as to where to look for these photos.

I checked the event sort order, the event is not there anymore.
I am missing both. I created an album & an event for the same set of pictures.
I have fairly new to mac, so not sure where else to search to find the pictures.

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