Recover photos from iCloud w/o iTunes or backup

A friend asked me today how to recover her photos from iCloud. She was having a problem with her iPhone 5 and went to an Apple store. They did a reset and told her that it would take some time, but eventually all her photos would be restored to the iPhone. She had over 800 of them. Her contacts, etc. are all there, but most of the photos are still not on the phone.
The biggest problem is that she doesn't have a computer, so she's never used iTunes. I looked at her phone and iCloud is turned on and photos are checked to be backed up.
Got a bad feeling about this...

Thank you Kappy, but I am trying to avoid (in the setup process) restoring from a backup, as others have had success with battery life setting the phone up as a new device.
So I am essentially trying to merely be able to access the photos from the backup?!
More than likely a futile task, but thought I would try!

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Last night, my external drive that I kept my media on died. No problem, right? I use Time Machine like a good boy...
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