Gregory Crewdson was born on September 26, 1962 and is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.
This image is interesting because, this guy looks like he's dead, as if he has no life, it's all dark in the room he's in where as in the kitchen where who I assume is his wife, there is light and light represents life, and she seems to have plenty of it. He has a spotlight on him and I think it's tinted with a blue gel, again blue in my books represents hope, so maybe there's hope that he'll go into the light, he could help his wife do the dishes or help do something. But then we see the pillows and covers on the sofa, this makes me think that the wife and him are not getting along as they should. In her mind he's an old, grumpy, self centered man, she remembers the man she married and smiles. But maybe that's what the blue spotlight means, hope that the younger personality can be brought back. 
At first gaze this looks like a happy image, and it may still be, but I can't ignore the boy just laying there, the wheather doesn't look that great, although the spotlight looks like a sun, it isn't really shining on the boy, only on the two parents and unborn baby. Now I understand the message. It's a typical older sibling getting the wrong impression that his parents don't care about him because of the new baby. Although those feeling could be true in this picture, as the parents aren't even looking at the boy, they aren't worried, they don't make a move to check on him, they only look as if they care about the baby.
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