Away from Melania's fashion choices, Kate Imbach in Medium looked at the 470 photographs the President's wife has taken and posted on Twitter and examined them as a body of work, saying they offer a rare insight into the former model's character.
"For someone like Melania, media-trained, controlled and cloistered, her collection of Twitter photography provides an otherwise unavailable view into the reality of her existence," Imbach writes. "Nowhere else - certainly not in interviews or public appearances - is her guard so far down."
So what does the First Lady say with her camera lens?
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Imbach begins with the fact that in three years, Melania only posted one photograph of herself with her husband Donald Trump – and her face is obscured with shadow and partially cropped out.
"It is both a selfie and an erasure, a depiction of her placement within their world," says the writer.
She also posted five pictures of Donald together with their son Barron, each of which is taken from behind, "sometimes literally from the backseat".
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