Unframed Tkinter Label Image

This is my first post. I visit Stack Overflow frequently and I used to always find answers to all my questions, but not today.

I'm trying to display images as shortcuts in a window, but not the way I thought Tkinter would display them. In other words. I have some small images that need to be placed next to each other without spaces. But besides all my efforts, Tkinter always places a small border or gap (maybe 1-2 pixels) between two adjacent elements.

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk

class MainWindow():

def __init__(self, mainWidget):

    self.status_bar_text = StringVar()
    self.status_bar_text.set('')

    self.image_to_place = PhotoImage(file='my_image.png')

    self.main_frame = ttk.Frame(mainWidget, width=768, height=480, padding=(0, 0, 0, 0))
    self.main_frame.place(x=0, y=0)

    self.status_bar = ttk.Label(mainWidget, width=768, border=1, anchor=W, relief=SUNKEN, textvariable=self.status_bar_text)
    self.status_bar.place(x=0, y=480)

    self.main_gui()

def main_gui(self):
    i = 0
    plate_cords = [[0, 0], [24, 0], [48, 0], [72, 0], [96, 0], [120, 0]]

    for plate in plate_cords:
        self.wall_label = ttk.Label(self.main_frame, image=self.image_to_place)
        self.wall_label.place(x=plate_cords[i][0], y=plate_cords[i][1])
        i += 1
    del i


def main():
    global root
    root = Tk()
    root.title('Title')
    root.geometry('768x500+250+100')
    root.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
    root.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)

    window = MainWindow(root)
    window

    root.mainloop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

      

        
        
        
      

    

I've tried options like "borderwidth", "padding", "bordermode" and a few other tricks, and nothing works as I'm guessing. Thanks for any help and ideas.