Photographer, Wife, Mom, Gardener, and Cancer Survivor. Prior to her cancer diagnosis in 2016, Pam Rouleau’s life motto was ‘No Regrets’. She now pushes those boundaries even more. She has adopted Author Jon Acuff’s advice, ‘Be brave enough to be bad at something new.’ Since then, she has become an avid rower with the Saugatuck Survive-OARS rowing team, learned to swim, and has opened her heart to the community volunteering her photographic talents for many of The Smilow Family Breast Health Center’s support programs. She has taken photographs for Smilow Connections Newsletter; Saugatuck Survive-OARS, a Breast Cancer Rowing Program, in partnership with Saugatuck Rowing Club; as well as documenting Casting for Recovery of Connecticut’s Annual Breast Cancer Retreat Program.
A graduate of The Art Institute of Boston, Pam has been in the professional field of photography for over 35 years, managing other professional’s businesses then making the leap to run her own business in architectural photography; adding portraiture to her repertoire in the recent past. Rouleau made the move to digital photography when using film started to become obsolete, but she still works with film, vintage cameras, pinhole cameras, and historical and alternative processes for her fine artwork.
Acting on a long-time dream of learning from portrait photographer, Joyce Tenneson, Pam took an immersive workshop with Tenneson at the Maine Media Workshops, securing the very last spot due to a last-minute cancelation. Two years later, in her effort to continue to ‘give back’ to The Smilow Center, Pam began to orchestrate the portrait project you can see here, as well as at The CT State Capitol for the month of October, 2023, “Finding Resilience: Thirteen Survivors Paths to Inner Peace”.
