Recovering photos after restoring backup overwrites content on phone

There were two iPhones on one iCloud account. Randomly the contacts from one phone ended up on the other and were deleted. This caused the contacts from the original phone to be deleted also. Upon trying to restore the deleted contacts, the content from the other phone overwrote the content of the original phone (because the original wasn't backed up on the cloud). The photos of the original phone were overwritten with the restoration of the backup. Is there any way that the photos can be retrieved? The music from the original phone remains which leads me to think that there might be some way to get the pictures back

Camera roll photos can only be restored by restoring the backup.  If the backup doesn't contain the photos you're looking for, they can't be recovered.  You music and other purchased media is redownloaded from the iTunes store when you restore a backup.  If the music was on the phone that was backed up, it will be restored to the device you restore the backup to.

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