Restore iPhoto after hard drive has been wiped?

My Macbook Pro Hard Drive recently failed and the Apple store wiped it clean. I had a number of important photos on iPhoto and I am wondering if there is any way to retrieve these? Being that they were added recently to my computer via my iPhone (they were deleted from the iPhone after they were imported), they are not backed up to any hard drive. I have iCloud on both the computer and the iPhone, but I am unable to retrieve images from that on the phone or the mac. For some reason photo stream was not working when I synced my phone to iCloud last.
Is there any way to retrieve photos from iPhoto or the iPhone (after they have been deleted?).
This is critical because I have recently left a rental and the pictures were taken before I moved in and after I left and now the land lord is attempting to accuse me of ruining the place.
Thanks.

There is a extreme possibility you can recover deleted files from the hard drive provided:
1: The Apple folks did a quick format, which they likely did as a Zero erase would take hours.
2: Where the old files were located on the drive hasn't been overwritten yet with new data.
3: Your competant in spending $100 for Data Rescue and install OS X on a external boot drive (blank)
Create a data recovery, undelete boot drive
The Apple folks shouldn't hae erased your drive without allowing you the opportunity to perform data recovery efforts, since they don't perform this function you should have consulted here first or got more info and not allow them ot erase your drive.
A local PC/Mac computer fix-it could have recovered the data first, then you could have taken it to Apple if you did't have a backup yet.
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