He also used to work as a teacher, train loader, scale operator at a pig market, head of a distribution company, a part of the underground structure of Solidarity and a shopkeeper.
He travelled by bike through Central Asia, the Gobi Desert and China, and sailed through Lake Baikal in a canoe.
Reports describing encountered people's everyday lives were published in Gazeta Wyborcza during the journey and later gathered and released in the book Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland.
Most of his works are about Russia: "(...) he describes the imperium from prospect of loitering dog, grasps mechanisms of thinking, behaviour, processes and a rat by its tail it addition.
"[3] The journalist appeared in blackface at a Polish Independence Day celebration on November 11, 2016, as part of a reporting project on street reactions to a black person.