  In this talk I review the findings of our recent works where we have studied
the decay of $N^*(1895)$ and the implications of such properties on the
photoproduction of light hyperons. I discuss that meson-baryon interactions
play an essential role in describing the nature of $N^*(1895)$ and report the
details of our investigation of its decays to different meson-baryon systems
and to final states involving $\Lambda(1405)$ and a proposed $\Sigma(1400)$. We
find that the width of $N^*(1895)$ gets important contributions from the decay
to light hyperon resonances. Such an information can be used to look for
alternative processes to study $N^*(1895)$ in experimental data.
