He was a Kenyan
citizen who spent most of his education and early 20s in Britain, working as
a chef in some of London’s leading restaurants.
But he returned to Kenya in 1998 to begin a career in photography.
“I left the kitchen for a greater passion, and made a career out of
photography,” he wrote on his website.
“I developed a major love for “travel style photography”,
particularly the African Landscape, and the fascinating people that live
here in East Africa.”
He was increasingly in demand as an advertising photographer in Nairobi, and
had worked in Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan and Ethiopia.
It is understood that guards at the upmarket apartment block in Nairobi’s
western suburb of Langata let the gunmen in because they thought they were
attending a party being held by one of Miss Sifuna’s neighbours.
Police recovered three bullet casings from the scene, and are working on
identifying the suspects involved in the incident, on Saturday night.
“It appears to us that it was an attempted robbery, and that the
unfortunate man simply panicked and tried to run,” one officer said.
“That is our assumption, but we have not ruled out the possibility that
they were hit men hired to kill the photographer.”
Jake Grieves-Cook said: “We are all devastated. Charlie was an
extraordinary young man with enormous talent who was loved by all who knew
him.
“He was kind-hearted, exceptionally generous to all around him, modest
and unassuming with a zest and passion for life so that he lived the
equivalent of a lifetime of 80 years in his 36 years.”
Miss Sifuna represented Kenya on an continentwide search for new modelling
talent, called Face of Africa. She was well known in Nairobi and was one of
a group of models in the country beginning to break into increasing
advertising work, especially in South Africa. It is understood that she and
Mr Grieves-Cook met when he photographed her for a Kenyan magazine.
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