There is actually a field reserved for this sort of thing-the custom_data field. You do have to be careful, though, since there may be other demands on the field (for instance from some other plugins.)
But you can also add such a field through PHPmyAdmin. But of course there would be no Zenphoto interface to update/change/view the values. The object model provides a basic `get()` and `set()` methods which would let you code such accesses.