Giovanni Reda
Photographer & Videographer
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Early life
Reda is from Mill Basin, Brooklyn, and went to college in Atlanta. Reda talks with a strong New York accent and is known for his sarcasm and insulting humor.[3]
Skateboarding
The Berrics
As of 2012, Reda is the staff photographer for the skateboarding website The Berrics. From 2008 to 2011, Reda produced and starred in a weekly video known as Wednesdays With Reda.[5] In this show, he typically interviews people associated with the skateboarding industry, although he has done episodes involving celebrities or actors.[5] Reda's last Wednesdays with Reda was in 2017.[5]
Before working at The Berrics, Reda worked for multiple magazines, including Big Brother, Transworld Skateboarding, and Skateboarder.[6] Reda was also the chief photographer of the Zoo York skate team for a while.[6] In the 2000s, Giovanni Reda won Transworld Skateboarding's Photographer of the Year award (P.O.T.Y.).[6]
Games
Reda is also known for his appearance in the Skate video game series. From the first game in 2007 until Skate 3 in 2010 he appears as the camera man and records the player character doing the main goals of the games (except for Skate 3 where he hands the role to returning Skate character Shingo).
