Unicode error when attempting to put an image as the background

Question

I am working on a school project for which I am making a small game using Python. Within python, I am using the Tkinter interface module to give shape to it all. I ran into a problem that I would not know anything about on how to fix it. I am trying to use an image as my background in my menu's but for the code that I have now, it gives me a Unicode error. Does anyone know why it's giving me this?
code:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.title("Test")
root.geometry('500x500')

background = PhotoImage(file='C:\Users\l111190\Desktop\bg.jpg')

label1 = Label(root, image=background)
label1.place (x=0, y=0)

root.mainloop()

And this is the error that I get when running this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Informatica eindopdracht\Thonny\tkinter test scripts\tkinter test v0.2.py", line 7
    background = PhotoImage(file='C:\Users\l111190\Desktop\bg.jpg')
                                ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Do you mean this? background = PhotoImage(file=r'C:\Users\l111190\Desktop\bg.jpg') — Beaver, Jan 21 '21 at 13:08
Tkinter does not support JPG images, either use a PNG or GIF image or use `PIL.ImageTk` (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18803419/python-tkinter-how-to-display-jpg-image-in-button for example) — j_4321, Jan 21 '21 at 13:10
When i try to import PIL it gives me an error that it is a non existent module — Beaver, Jan 21 '21 at 13:17
You have to install it. Here is the pip command: `pip install pillow` — DapperDuck, Jan 21 '21 at 13:54
I am using a program named Thonny to run my python scripts so I don't think that it'll work by running that — Beaver, Jan 21 '21 at 18:56

Unicode error when attempting to put an image as the background

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