Awards:
1993 – Winner Kodak International Salon of Photography (George Eastman Medal)
2007 – Digital Honours 11th Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Salon
2007 – Bronze Award NZIPP Epson/Iris Professional Photography Awards
2007 – Highly Commended Mortlock McCormack Law CPIT Art Award
2008 – Bronze Award NZIPP Epson/Iris Professional Photography Awards
2008 – Winner Avenues Magazine Tertiary Student Photographic Competition
2009 – Acceptance Awards (2) 13th Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Salon
2009 – Bronze Awards (3) Landscape Category Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards
2010 – Bronze (3) and Silver (1) Awards in the Landscape and Editorial Categories Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards
2010 – Awarded Associate Honours of the NZ Institute of Professional Photography
2010 – Darfield Art Week Malvern Community Arts Council Friends Award
2011 – Bronze (3) Awards in the Landscape and Editorial Categories Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards
2012 – Bronze (6) Awards in the Landscape and Photojournalism Categories Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards. Finalist in the Photojournalism Category
2013 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Exhibition People’s Choice Award
2013 – Gold, Silver (3) and Bronze (2) Awards in the Landscape and Travel Categories Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards
2013 – Awarded Master and Fellow Honours of the NZ Institute of Professional Photography
2015 – Silver (3) and Bronze (3) Awards in the Landscape and Travel Categories Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards
2017 – Gold with Distinction, Gold, Silver with Distinction, Silver and Bronze (4) Awards in the Documentary, Landscape and Travel Categories Epson/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards. Finalist in the Travel Category
2017 – Awarded 2 Bars to Fellow of the NZ Institute of Professional Photography
2017 – Awarded NZ Institute of Professional Photography Canterbury/Westland Regional Photographer of the Year
2018 – Honours Award Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Salon
2018 – Silver (5) and Bronze (3) Awards in the Nature and Travel Categories Nikon/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards. Finalist in the Nature and Travel Categories
2019 – Silver (1) and Bronze (3) Awards in the Landscape, Travel and Book Categories Nikon/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards. Finalist in the Book Category
2020 – Silver (3) and Bronze (11) Awards in the Landscape, and Travel Nikon/NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards

Exhibitions:
2008 – Creative New Zealand ‘Witness’ Group Exhibition
2008 – McKenzie and Willis ‘start’ Group Exhibition for Emerging Artists
2009 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Group Exhibition
2010 – COCA Gallery ‘Crossings / Sentinels’ Exhibition
2010 – Darfield Art Week Group Exhibition
2011 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Group Exhibition
2013 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Group Exhibition
2013 – Darfield Art Week Group Exhibition
2013 – NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, ‘Cliff to Clay’ Group Exhibition
2015 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Group Exhibition
2018 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Group Exhibition
2021 – Castle Hill Village Easter Art Group Exhibition

Publications:
2009 – Photographer for ‘Kura Kaumatua, He Hokika Mahara / Recalling the Memories’, Compiled by Hana O’Reagan and Charisma Rangipuna, Ake Associates Ltd, ISBN 978-0-473-15261-1 
2012 – ‘On a Saturday Night: Community Halls of Small-Town New Zealand’, Michele Frey and Sara Newman, Photographs John Maillard and John O’Malley, Canterbury University Press, ISBN 978-1-927145-37-1
2015 – ‘Icelandic Saga’, Word and Images by John O’Malley, Licence to Ride Manual #6, Chill Studio
2016 – ‘Magnificent Isolation: Riding Iceland’s Sprengisandur’, Word and Images by John O’Malley, Licence to Ride Manual #7, Chill Studio
2017 – ‘Biking Iceland’s Spregisandur’, Word and Images by John O’Malley, New Zealand Mountain Biker Magazine, Feb/Mar 2017, Issue #81 
2017 – ‘John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders 1864-1891’, Jenny Abrahamson, Photographs by John O’Malley, Wily Publications Ltd, ISBN 978-1-927167-31-1
2018 – ‘Riding the Gæsavatnaleið’, Word and Images by John O’Malley, Spoke Magazine, Issue 73, March 2018