Sarah Tilotta

Photo Editor & Photographer

Sarah Tilotta is a photo editor and photographer based in CNN International's London bureau.
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Reindeer herders are fighting to save their land and a way of life
Britain is broken. Can anyone fix it?
Birmingham's Bullring Open Market, once the center of the city's trade, has been neglected by the council in favor of "prestige projects," says local historian Carl Chinn. Birmingham -- the second-largest city in England, and the largest council in Europe -- went bust late last year. Unable to balance its yearly budget, it issued a "section 114" notice: the local government version of bankruptcy. To fill its financial black hole, the council will cut services, gut assets and raise taxes, making more than a million people pay more for less.
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Why Britain’s towns and cities are going bust
Karolina Duzniak and her fiance, Ola Glowacka, leave Kozy and drive away from the "LGBT-free zone."
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In Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones,’ existing is an act of defiance
People pass in front of a screen showing an image from King Charles III coronation in Piccadilly Circus, London, following the event on May 6
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Gallery In pictures: The coronation of King Charles III
The ‘Salt Queen’ working to transform the health of a nation
Covid-19 gave the world a chance to fix the climate crisis. We’re about to waste it.
Protesters in London mourn George Floyd and blast US President Donald Trump
Sex work is legal here. But only if you register with the police
‘It’s a gentlemen’s game.’ Finding acceptance among the world’s first gay cricket team
Liverpool, site of last surrender in US Civil War, grapples with its Confederate links
UK Election 2019: The vote that could destroy the United Kingdom
One of the world’s strictest lockdowns is lifting, but many are scared to go back to normal life
Hong Kong activist Nathan Law is photographed in London, England, on December 9, 2020. Sarah Tilotta/CNN
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Hong Kong’s democracy activists face two choices: leave or stay?
‘We’re injecting hope’
How ‘Little Seoul’ fell in love with its favorite son
Demonstrators from various groups organizing to end violence against women march through central Dakar on Sunday, December 9.
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The Me Too movement was silent in Senegal. These women are trying to change that
Knives and gangs: What’s driving Britain’s broken boys to crime?
UK fruit farmers feel the squeeze as Brexit looms
Video Branded cheats, they’re fighting back
MPs call for inquiry into UK Home Office treatment of foreign students
London protests send clear message to Trump: You’re not welcome
‘I am broken’: A year on and still no justice for Grenfell fire victims
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‘Just get on with it’: Brexit voters want out – for better or worse
Unity at memorial mass for Barcelona victims
An ambulance is seen through a neighbor's front lawn, where a hose dangles in a half-empty pool.
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A bomb factory in a beach town may be key to Spain’s terror attacks
Finsbury Park’s Muslims feared reprisals, but not here
London fire: Smiling faces of missing a stark contrast with anger and grief
Grenfell Tower: After the horror, anger flares in west London
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In the pouring rain, Londoners pay tribute to attack victims
‘England is finished’
London unites against terror in defiant vigil
A city stilled, shocked and then enraged by attack
Worse than Wilders? Refugees in the Netherlands fear the status quo
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Lessons from L’Aquila
Italy earthquake survivors: ‘The future is finished’
London’s ultra-Orthodox Jews find surprising new home
Dozens of hot air balloons gathered for a colorful fiesta in England
Exit before Brexit: The ‘unwelcome’ EU citizens eying their escape
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Millennial to Octogenarian: Three generations of refugees on today’s crisis

Editing & Production
Netanyahu says ‘victory’ over Hamas is in sight. The data tells a different story
Meet the women fighting for compensation for cancers they say were caused by France’s nuclear testing
Children of ISIS fighters coming of age in detention ask what they’re being punished for
The Indian government asked NGOs to run shelters for trans people. Since then, the NGOs say they’ve been left to fend for themselves
A leaked photograph of an enclosure where detainees in gray tracksuits are seen blindfolded and sitting on paper-thin mattresses. CNN was able to geolocate the hangar in the Sde Teiman facility.
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The horrors of a shadowy Israeli detention facility for Palestinian prisoners
A local fisherman performs maintenance on his boat at Loji Beach, West Java, surrounded by garbage.
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The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each year. Here’s where a lot of it ends up
One woman risked it all to get a body that matches her gender identity
Kate’s photo of late Queen was doctored, agency says
30 people defending women’s and LGTBQ+ rights around the world
Inside the small Welsh town with a history of UFO sightings
Britain’s shadowy border
These dogs are living the good life in Palm Springs
A Palestinian woman looks outside her door that was torched by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara.
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Israel’s military called the settler attack on this Palestinian town a ‘pogrom.’
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Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the people who fought back
Gallery In pictures: US presidents in war zones
Iran used a network of secret torture centers to crush an uprising
Othered: How systemic racism, xenophobia and religious discrimination were woven into the fabric of the UK
TOPSHOT - People wearing face masks take pictures in front of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame, which is displayed outside Sendai railway station, Miyagi prefecture on March 21, 2020, after arriving from Greece. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)
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How we got to the Tokyo Olympics despite a global pandemic
The stark global divide in the Covid-19 pandemic
Eritrean troops disguised as Ethiopian military are blocking critical aid in Tigray
Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth’s royal romance
U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY IMAGES OF THE DAY POLITICS)
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Gallery 20 years in Afghanistan: America’s longest war
A history of World Expos in 40 objects
Footage obtained by CNN shows soldiers rounding up dozens of young men on a clifftop and checking if they're armed.
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‘Two bullets is enough’
Massacre in the mountains
A ticking time-bomb for the climate crisis?
Workers clean up the Lekki toll gate, a site where soldiers had opened fire on protesters late on Tuesday, as Nigeria's Lagos state eases a round-the-clock curfew imposed in response to protests against alleged police brutality, after days of unrest, in Lagos, Nigeria October 24, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
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‘They pointed their guns at us and started shooting’
18 Memorable Masters moments
US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 1, 2020, following campaign events in New Jersey.
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A timeline of Trump’s past two weeks
Valeri Borzov (no.232) from the USSR wins the 200m Olympic Final. Munich, Germany - 1972
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From Munich terror attack to Voyager space mission: How an Olympic image achieved immortality
A lab technician wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) looks at a bottle containing a reagent before performing vaccine tests at a French pharmaceutical company Sanofi's laboratory in Val de Reuil on July 10, 2020. (Photo by Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
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Inside the multibillion dollar race for a Covid-19 vaccine
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How American police gear up to respond to protests
‘Living in fear’ Hungary’s new ban throws its transgender community into limbo
Coronavirus has stolen our most meaningful ways to connect
Liverpool’s agonising wait for English football’s biggest prize
Life is slowly returning in Wuhan
Capturing human connection in the age of coronavirus
Forty-five years ago, eight Soviet climbers were pinned on top of a high mountain in the USSR in the worst storm in 25 years.
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Frozen in time
These striking portraits celebrate redheads young and old
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The Year in Photos: 2019
Borneo is Burning
Battery packs are assembled inside Audi's e-tron factory in Brussels.
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The great electric car race is just beginning
Putin’s Private Army
Gallery Aerial photos show scale of Notre Dame damage
36 Hours with the Taliban
TOPSHOT - People drive past a washed up boat and collapsed buildings in Palu on October 1, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. - Mass graves were being readied on October 1 for hundreds of victims of the Indonesian quake and tsunami as authorities battled to stave off disease and reach desperate people still trapped under shattered buildings. (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD / AFP) (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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‘Smells of death’ in the days after disasters in Indonesia
Matthew Allon and his dog Spike, pictured in Fatties Cafe, in the district of Concord in Washington, Sunderland on 9th July 2018. Pictured behind is Kelly Maughan who works in the cafe and has lived in Washington all her life. President Donald Tump is visiting the United Kingdom on Friday 13th July and is expected to be greeted with protests in London and around the country. Photograph by Mary Turner/ Panos Pictures
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‘Trump off, mate’
A photographic treatment for people with dementia
Viktor & Rolf, fashion’s most daring duo, celebrate 25 years of provocation
Photographer shares the story behind his viral photo of an immigrant toddler
Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr around the world
In pictures: Guatemala volcano erupts
Inside the North Korean residence where Kim met Lavrov
In pictures: Deadliest day in Gaza since 2014
#AsEquals
‘Without papers, you are nothing’
Flames consume a home as a wildfire burns in Ojai, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Fierce wildfires feast on Southern California
epa06326178 Iranian victims of the earthquake mourn around the wreckage of their home in the city of Pole-Zahab in Kermanshah Province, Iran, 13 November 2017. According to media reports quoting Iranian officials, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit the region along the border between Iran and Iraq on 12 November, killing at least 129 people and injuring over 300. EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Heartbreaking images from the year’s deadliest earthquake
Elsewhere during Trump’s first 100 days
Ships in the night: A surreal encounter with a $27m super yacht
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What happens when health care is scarce and TB rates are high
From airstrike to US intervention: How a chemical attack in Syria unfolded
Shame, taboo, ignorance: Growing up intersex
Award-winning photos capture farmland life in rural Africa

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Keir Starmer, leader of Britain's Labour party, addresses his supporters at a reception to celebrate his win in the election, at Tate Modern, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
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Live Updates Keir Starmer is new UK prime minister after landslide election win
Jul 5, 2024
The photo, showing the Queen and ten of her young relatives, was published last year. CNN has circled areas showing visible digital inconsistencies.
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Kate’s photo of late Queen was doctored, agency says, as princess spotted in public for first time in months
Mar 20, 2024
Dr Venkat Chandra, 46, receives the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as operations for the UK vaccination rollout get underway at a health center in Cardiff, Wales, on Tuesday, December 8. The UK became the first Western country to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine on December 2. CNN agreed not to name the specific location of the facility in Wales, due to the government's approach with administering the vaccines to a priority/high-risk population by invitation only, first. Sarah Tilotta/CNN
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‘We’re injecting hope’
Dec 8, 2020
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vanessa Carvalho/Shutterstock (10614521o) New York residents and city police horses (NYPD) applaud health care workers in a Manhattan hospital during the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Coronavirus outbreak, New York, USA - 15 Apr 2020
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Gallery Here’s how people are thanking health-care heroes around the world
Apr 30, 2020
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Gallery In Photos: Emergency services play the ‘Tetris Challenge’
Sep 18, 2019
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MPs call for inquiry into UK Home Office treatment of foreign students
Sep 4, 2018
Shabbir Islam, Wahidur Rahman and Rabi Aryal were all accused of cheating on an English language test and threatened with deportation.
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Branded cheats and threatened with deportation, these students are fighting back
Jul 9, 2018
Malaysian Muslims offer prayers during the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Gallery Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr around the world
Jun 15, 2018
CHESTER, ENGLAND - JUNE 14: Queen Elizabeth II sitts and laughs with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex during a ceremony to open the new Mersey Gateway Bridge on June 14, 2018 in the town of Widnes in Halton, Cheshire, England. Meghan Markle married Prince Harry last month to become The Duchess of Sussex and this is her first engagement with the Queen. During the visit the pair will open a road bridge in Widnes and visit The Storyhouse and Town Hall in Chester. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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Gallery The Queen and Meghan’s first outing together
Jun 14, 2018
Rescue workers remove piles of ash spewed by the Volcan de Fuego, or "Volcano of Fire," eruption, in El Rodeo, Guatemala, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. Wednesday morning rescuers were concerned about possible dangers posed not only by more volcanic flows but also rain. Authorities have said the window is closing on the chances of finding anyone else alive in the devastation. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Gallery In pictures: Guatemala volcano erupts
Jun 7, 2018
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - MAY 31, 2018: A view of a residence of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)
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Gallery Inside the North Korean residence where Kim met Lavrov
Jun 4, 2018
Turkish youths demonstrate during a May Day rally on May 1, 2018 on the Anatolian side of Istanbul in Maltepe. - Istanbul police on May 1 detained over 50 people and placed a security lockdown on the city as the Turkish metropolis marked a tense May Day. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP) (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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May Day protesters demand better rights for workers
May 2, 2018
epaselect epa06425868 Rebecca Hickson (L) and Sarah Turnbull pose for photographs after being married in a ceremony in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 09 January 2018. The day marks the first official day same-sex marriage ceremonies can take place in Australia after legislation was passed in parliament in December 2017. EPA-EFE/DAN HIMBRECHTS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT
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Moments after midnight, Australian same-sex couples say ‘I do’
Jan 9, 2018
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Grenfell Tower: After the horror, anger flares in west London
Jun 14, 2017
This photo provided Tuesday, April 4, 2017 by the Syrian anti-government activist group Edlib Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian doctor treating a child following a suspected chemical attack, at a makeshift hospital, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria.
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From airstrike to US intervention: How a chemical attack in Syria unfolded
Apr 7, 2017
Amadu Jalloh, 24, from Freetown, Sierra Leone, came to Amsterdam four years ago after his father passed away to seek a better life. As an asylum-seeker he was recieving support for his case up until a month ago, when they suddenly stopped without explanation. He is now living with other refugees from the We Are Here group at Vlughtbouw in Asmterdam. With a work permit, he spends his days walking around Centraal Amsterdam.
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Worse than Wilders? Why refugees in the Netherlands fear the status quo
Mar 14, 2017

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