Is there a way to add pages of text? I'm using Zenphoto for my portfolio online and would rather not have to have a page that is not necessarily controlled via the CMS. Is that even possible?

Comming soon: http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=3881#post-23274

There will also be a plugin hack that will let you show a text box where you normally have images. Both these will be 'unofficial' plugins available after the 1.2.1 release.

And it's of course possible with a plain hand coded page using custom pages. More about that on our theming tutorial:http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/05/theming-tutorial/#custom-pages