Photographic gear arrived with artist (6)
I believe the answer is:
camera
'photographic gear' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'arrived with artist' is the wordplay.
'arrived' becomes 'came' (come can mean to appear or arrive).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'came'+'ra'='CAMERA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for camera that I've seen before include "Bringing equipment for producing pictures" , "TV studio item" , "Picture producer" , "Common image recording device" , "Still producer" .)