Please help! Disappearing iphoto application, no time machine

I don't have Time Machine turned on, I go to open iphoto today and it has a question mark on it, and the application is gone. Anyone know how I fix or redownload? It's not anywhere on the mac, I have already done a spotlight search. I don't have any original disks with the application, it was just on my mac when I bought it, i think.

Thanks a million for your help. I have 10.6.8, but I am unsure if this is what the computer was originally shipped with. I also don't know how to reinstall it from the computer's original disks. Can you help, or direct me to a link that can? Again, really appreciate the help.
I am attaching a screenshot of my pictures folder, to see if you can decipher whether all my photos are gone!
I don't know what happened with this, I don't see myself moving it to trash and emptying, but maybe I did!

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