Playing Fields is focusing on the quite infrastructure and peripheral spaces of the new Great Game - spaces which are very close to the mythical netscapes of a new contesting order concerning resources in Caucasus and Central Asia. The photographs have been taken in countries around the Caspian Sea: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. "Liebchen has attempted to conjure up a metaphor for what is happening in the area, seeking to make visible the invisible by photographing the invisible. He has decided to make use of one of photography´s abiding traits, its transfigurative power, whereby the close forensic scrutiny of an ordinary object can yield a multiplicity of interpretive clues for sifting by the cultural archaeologist or the open minded, perceptive viewer." Gerry Badger