Jennifer Cheung first visited Wanås Konst sculpture park, in Knislinge, Sweden, on the day of her elopement. On the way to the church where her husband’s grandparents had married decades before, the almost-weds stopped for a brief visit. That was in 2013, and whenever she returns to Sweden from her home in LA, she tries to revisit. She shot this image, with a 15th-century castle as the backdrop for a flock of pink sheep, in 2017.
“Every time I visit Wanås there is something beautiful to capture. Some artworks are there permanently and some change,” Cheung says. “These sheep were a live exhibition by artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen; he was inspired by Queen Marie Antoinette of France, who was said to have kept a flock of pink, perfumed sheep in a model farm she had built near her Versailles chateau. You don’t need to know the artist’s intention to enjoy the installation, of course, but it makes you curious to find out more.”
Cheung posts most of her non-work images on Instagram; with that in mind, she cropped the shot square and added a little saturation “so the pink really popped”, and some vignetting (darkening around the edges) “to draw your eye into the shot”.
“I come from a family of photographers,” she adds. “My mother’s wedding gift to my father was a Hasselblad camera. My grandmother always said, ‘You’re never bored with a camera’ and she is right.”
