Is it okay to approach the customers of my former boss who passed away one month ago?

I am a bit in a dilemma about this.

So two years ago I worked for an advertisement photographer during an internship. I learned a lot in this time and I had a good relationship to him. Until recently, while working as a photographer myself, I still helped him out from time to time as an assistant while he was slowly preparing to sell his studio and go into pension.

One month ago I received a letter informing me he passed away due to cancer which was really unexpected. Nobody knew about it.

Two weeks later one of his customers that I happened to know better approached me for a job. I felt a bit bad in the first place but obviously everyday business keeps running and they needed somebody to take their pictures, so I accepted. In fact this was a huge opportunity for me and my biggest customer so far.

I am now wondering if it is okay to approach some of his customers I'd like to work for and offer them my services. After all, I have got more insight into their needs than other photographers since I happened to do these exact jobs for them myself several times. At the same time this feels like a shitty thing to do, like making profit out of somebodies death. What do you think about this? Is it okay to approach his customers? And if so, how would you do it to not come off as a bad person that they would never want to work with?

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